All these switching to linux posts and it feels universe is telling me to make the switch.

Yesterday, again, i had to go through failing windows 10 update. Wasted over 2 hr just booting up my pc because of fucking update that is incompatible with my PC.

I want to switch right now.

Which linux distro do you recommend? I let devRant choose my OS. ( p.s Its a laptop )

If you think Windows = pain... Wait until you move to Linux.

Go to Kali 😆😅

@orijin not .... Quite 😂 what you want I'd run as virtual machine

@drRoss you just assigned pain to windows 😂😂

Fedora

@HoloDreamer
It depends on your wants and needs.
If you want the bleeding edge updates, a vast repository of packages then go with Arch. There is an installer called feliz installer that you can download, it makes the installation easy. You can also go with derivatives of arch like Manjaro or antegros that make the installation easy as well. (Can also run them live to get a feeling)
If you want not so bleeding edge but want vast support of applications and other packages then you can try Ubuntu or Linux mint. They're both derivatives of debian so you can also just go to debian itself as well.
There are a lot of distributions, take a look at distrowatch.com

Elementary.io

Windows... 'Cus... You know... Linux subsystem.

@drRoss where's the fun and learn part without pain setting up a Linux distribution?

@kabhishek Once you've done it... Meh.

For a laptop, I would go with Ubuntu MATE. Driver support and BIOS controls out of the box. IMHO, it is not harder than windows, but it is different. I use Linux exclusively for 5 years and I a much better on Linux than Windows now.

Since you are asking what Linux distro to switch to, consider yourself Yamcha and Arch Linux to be Lord Beerus or Frieza, don't consider installing Arch if you have zero experience of Linux, you might end up with all the partitions deleted. Install Ubuntu, most user-friendly distribution with wider community support than many distributions.

Ubuntu = classic new user
openSuse = my recommendation
Elementary OS = switch in 2-3 months
Arch = your goal in one year

@dedcde with PPAs and customisation(King Kai's training), Krillin can become better.

Dual boot with linux mint and windows 8.1 in case you miss windows, linux mint it's pretty easy too use, thats what i have in my laptop, i don't like win 10

@tpalmerstudios Lol, such a waste of time. Just choose one, get used to it and keep with it. You're only gonna take the same tools to a different distro, what's the fucking point of 'aiming' to be on a certain distro in a year? Fucking madness.

If you want to learn Linux, make because you want some devops, then get one of the 3 major OSes: Ubuntu, Fedora or SuSE. Then when you're comfortable with that, maybe try Arch or some such.

If you just want a stable and pretty OS to develop on maybe look at Elementary.

For what it's worth, no one uses Arch commercially.

@aki237 , which is basically what @drRoss said...

The way i see it :
Ubuntu : more like noobuntu. A good way to get into linux
Debian : the most popular. Stable and easy to use.
Arch : personal favorite. Comes with nothing but bare bones. Your os, your rules.
Gentoo : 1st usage : why would you put yourself through this ? 2nd usage : Now you're playing with power!

@aki237 When the percentage of people are >0.05%... No one uses it.

This thread is awful...

I recommend Mint or Ubuntu.

@HoloDreamer Maybe this will help you https://distrochooser.de/?l=2

@drRoss No one uses Arch commercially? Thanks for the laugh, that was about the funniest thing I've read today :P

@undefined It's RedHat or Ubuntu commercially... Everyman and his dog knows that.

@nickhh just tried elementary. Google chrome couldn't install because of some dependency error. Also, in trash bin it says, "maybe" able to restore. That's scary!

@HoloDreamer it can be force installed with dpkg, then the dependencies can be fixed with apt-get.

@nickhh yeah, but issues with restoring from trash bin sounds like a trouble waiting to happen.

@drRoss Define "commercially". If you refer to organisations that pay for support on a specific distro, you might have a chance of being right. However, if you refer to the use of Linux in "commercial" companies, you are simply dead wrong. So with regards to OP, you are probably more misleading than guiding.

@HoloDreamer yes I cannot comment about the trashcan, I have never used it, I have a habit to rm -rf files directly.

@undefined - my definition of commercial is "used to deploy products or is otherwise maintained on a large scale by the company's IT department".

I know there are developers and admins that user Arch as their daily driver, but unless IT deploys production servers running Arch, or offers Arch as a supported OS on company's laptops, I don't consider it "commercial use". I don't know specifically of anyone that fits the bill, but I won't be surprised if you can point to one or two. Still, one or two deployments in the world counts as "no one" for most intents and purposes.

@undefined Commercial use as a server OS with support.