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| Im trying to switch over to linux, what's a good distro that will push me out of my comfort zone but not be totaly over my head?

| Im trying mint at the moment and it feels alright i just wanna know if there's something better i should be useing or if thats a decent starting point

| Mint blows just go with ubuntu if you're too big of a noon to install debian

| Unironically Gentoo if you're not too much of a brainlet.

| Any distro is a good distro for learning Linux. If you want to go the sysadmin route, take any netinstalls (Arch, Debian-netinstall, Gentoo), but if you're only there for the shiz, Mint and Manjaro is a great starter.

If you want to push yourself out of that GUI comfort zone, then start using CLI for most things.

| Stay with Mint OP. I use Debian myself but as you are a starter Mint is a good choice. Do not be fooled by Ubuntu and its 'I want to be a smartphone' goals. You have chosen well.

| I'm using KDE Neon at the moment because it's similar to windows and doesn't have any telemetry AFAIK, and it's pretty simple, but it doesn't tell you a lot of the stuff that Ubuntu does.

| >>177564
YES. Another Neon User. But I would not say it is more similiar to Windows than other desktops.
It's just the best desktop ever. Second place are Lxde and xfce then comes windows, then gnome and mate, then osx, then stuff no one uses srsly and at last unity, which just got dropped from canonical.
But if you want to „learn linux“ it's not mainly a question of the desktop which only could give you comfy cli emulators and integration (what KDE does best).

| apt-get install <guidesktopnamehere>
apt-get install <seriouscomplcatedsoftware>-doc
apt-get install build-essential

In addition to your already installed system, you now have a good and solid starting point to explore any "getting started" advice you will find around.

| Crap, the board messed up my install lines.

apt-get install /guidesktopnamehere/
apt-get install /bigserioussoftware/-doc

| >>177650 also it has kde-connect which is really good at non bluetooth android integration. No VoIP though, and there isn't a windows port to my knowledge.

| mint -> arch -> gentoo
mint is easy and friendly, get used to the command line.
Arch to really get more in depth commands and additional utilities in the AUR.
Gentoo to understand program compilation and customization, so that you can really understand what other distros do in the background.

| >>177354
This. Mint actually sucks cock. Ubuntu is used by most Linux normies and by far has the most support. Don't buy into the Gentoo and Arch memes.

| Ubuntu killed for no apparent reason my screen sessions I left running. Kvm module sometimes showed up as a zombie process and vm-s just died. Ping acted slow unless you configured a dns in /etc/hosts or had a local bind/dnsmasq. X forwarding back through ssh drew windows with glitches.

| İf you want to get your hands dirty i suggest Arch Linux and if you want to get insane you should instal gentoo

| >>178683
I don't know much about gentoo, but Arch is not that bad. It has a great wiki that explains a lot of useful things. If I wasn't too familiar with Ubuntu and if there wasn't KDE neon, I would use Arch.
With mint I made bad expirience back then, since it did not keep its promise of beeing more foolproof than Ubuntu. Mint with KDE is so behind like Kubuntu and GNOME/Mate simply sucks, compared to xfce or lxde.

| >>177272
The most important thing is:
What do you want to use your computer for?
Are you (or do you want become) a gamer, server admin, developer or an artist? How much do you want to get in touch with terminal commands and editing text files? What do you expect from a linux distro making better than windos? There are ethical aspects like Freedom of choice and technological aspects like open source, standards and formats or efficiency, control, security and educational purposes.

| >>179078 This post sums it up really well. There is no best distro. There is only varying level of focus users. Personally I use linux to build systems with ideally zero downtime and which need to last for years. Stability, predictive behaviour, software that will not be orphaned after one year, good package management, backward compatibility, this is what I need.