I'm getting a new laptop and planning on installing Xubuntu on it. Anybody have any other distros that they like that I might consider installing instead?

Zorin os. Its is the ugly ubuntu but made beautyfull

1) Linux Mint Cinnamon if you want to go LTS. However, Mint 21 is right around the corner this or next month.

2) Manjaro if you want RR.

Ubuntu MATE is not too bad, used it for years at this point on my machine. I might try to go for elementary os at some point in the future tho. Maybe with new hardware..

Arch Linux.

Ubuntu is getting more and more Windows like

Not the design but the experience

@jonas-w is true.. i actually feel it a little with zorin os.. But since i changed from windows 11 some months ago its still a huge step up

With ubuntu moving to snap it will become something like windows store and it's uwp software.

It moves further away from linux and it's simplicity and tiny footprint.

Want stable, but leading-edge? Fedora. Outside of that, Zorin will be just fine for the average install that doesn't really require the 'latest and greatest'.

If you do for whatever reason want either an Arch-based distro or rolling-release, then Endeavour will be fine.

I personally daily Fedora WS, but the spins work fine too if you prefer a different DE/WM OOTB.

I quite like Pop! OS but i haven't tried it as a daily driver yet.

Mint with Cinnamon

tastes weird, but feels amazing

What exactly do you do? You might also want to factor that in when choosing a distro.

@fruitfcker I'm mainly using it for programming. I've mainly been looking at Ubuntu because most things I would want to install have a way to install them on Ubuntu.

I suggest Arch btw

@alturnativ I had, really good experience to be honest.

@connormon debian directly