Best Linux 2020

I've made my final stop on Fedora about 5 years ago (after starting with Linux 7 years ago), it's in my eyes the perfect distro for my needs.
We've got sane defaults, backed by a large corporation and healthy community, an outstanding list of packages from the main and rpmfusion repos (as well as copr for that curiosity itch and flatpaks for proprietary applications), chromium and the lack of snapd by default (thanks for making container systems a joke Canonical!), close to bleeding edge packages and yearly support per version, enhanced laptop battery saving on top of TLP, and probably the most robust dist-upgrades I've ever done, no Ubuntu could upgrade so many times without some form of breakage. Of course I use GNOME and agree that their spins are not as polished as Workstation but thankfully netinstalls exist to get everything running exactly how you want it.
Also lol @cavedog I count 7 Debian-based distros and an Arch spin, diversify a 'lil :P
 
JustAsk said:
Linuxfx/Windowsfx lol
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There's an ubuntu spin with deepin de - https://ubuntudde.com/
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Installed it earlier. Posting from it now.
I had some Wifi issues and some Ubuntu crash reports popping up, but other than that I love this distribution in comparison to vanilla Ubuntu,
I won't install the FX components. I've got Windows in dual boot with it, so I don't want to have to look at two of the same things/ideas.

Very cool share, thanks again.
 
oldhat said:
Yes, it does. Works best with distro's using KDE. KDE Neon OS is based on Ubuntu LTS but not bloated like Kubuntu...
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I use it with XFCE. Mostly as a remote control for my music (deadbeef). I work from home and love to play music at louder levels, so the fact that it pauses the music when a call comes in, is a great added bonus
 
Think I'm going to run Manjaro KDE for a while. It looks good. Easy to install all the apps I need. KDE Plasma is epic except for the fact it's very easy to break your desktop with all the customizations.
 
cavedog said:
Arg never mind I changed to ubuntu. lol :laugh:
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In my younger days I loved playing around with various tech things, such as loading custom roms to early Android devices and experimenting with different OS options. As much "fun" as that was (and is) I quickly learnt my work phone / laptop / computer just needs to work. I don't want to spend time sorting out software issues when I could be doing actual work instead. I'm guessing with your new work you might find the same soon.
 
cavedog said:
There is just so many choices so I want to pick one and just go with it. This will be for my work Laptop.

ubuntu
kubuntu
Pop Os
Deepin
Manjaro
Mint
Elementary
Zorin

Not going to lie but I want like all of them. :laugh:
I know the term best is not really suitable because everyone would have their own opinion so best I would say what is your best. Suggestions?
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If you start off, Linux Mint is great. I use it for over 3 years now and "sold" to it.
 
Speedster said:
In my younger days I loved playing around with various tech things, such as loading custom roms to early Android devices and experimenting with different OS options. As much "fun" as that was (and is) I quickly learnt my work phone / laptop / computer just needs to work. I don't want to spend time sorting out software issues when I could be doing actual work instead. I'm guessing with your new work you might find the same soon.
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Yeah I'm just sticking with Ubuntu now. I set up everything and it's working as expected. Windows 10 is nice but people in IT don't approve windows so decided some linux day to day on my laptop can only do me good.
 
SYNERGY said:
And then sell it and buy a Windows laptop for 1/2 the price.
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Back to this "debate". Two things I want to mention:
  1. I was looking at buying a machine for video editing recently and the pricing between similarly specced windows and mac machines were virtually the same. If you want a cheapy / entry level machine then, by all means, go Windows as there aren't any macs in that price bracket. If you're looking at anything slightly higher up, mac and windows machines are very similarly priced. For completeness, I went Windows on that machine.
  2. I bought my first MacBook circa 2010 secondhand. Since then I've upgraded a number of times - mostly secondhand, once new. Over the 10 year period my Mac has worked out quite a bit cheaper than my colleagues' who have windows laptops as I was able to sell my mac for very good prices, while the windows' machines didn't seem to keep their value nearly as much. This has meant that I've managed to maintain a reasonably current macbook for between R3k and R5k each upgrade cycle (approx 3 years), while my colleagues have needed to pay basically full price on a new machine every time they upgrade.
 
cavedog said:
Yeah I'm just sticking with Ubuntu now. I set up everything and it's working as expected. Windows 10 is nice but people in IT don't approve windows so decided some linux day to day on my laptop can only do me good.
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Yes - you've got to dress the part now :sneaky:

I've found ubuntu to be the "easiest" Linux distro - in terms of stability and maintenance - so I reckon that is a good call.
 
There is a reason why MX Linux is the no. 1 distro on Distro Watch for the past 18 months
Try it and let it speak for it self
 
aktiv said:
There is a reason why MX Linux is the no. 1 distro on Distro Watch for the past 18 months
Try it and let it speak for it self
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lol nah, the main reason is due to people using clickfarms to generate the HPD's to get their distro up there as free advertisement, just like Manjaro was doing. There's certainly other more valid reasons it's a great distro but nobody should use the Distrowatch ranking at all to justify it or any others.
 
Speedster said:
In my younger days I loved playing around with various tech things, such as loading custom roms to early Android devices and experimenting with different OS options. As much "fun" as that was (and is) I quickly learnt my work phone / laptop / computer just needs to work. I don't want to spend time sorting out software issues when I could be doing actual work instead. I'm guessing with your new work you might find the same soon.
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I still love to tinker, I just use a spare pc to do so now. Main pc has a stable OS installation.
 
Mint or manjaro depending on your tolerance for updates... also because AUR is half useless Mint has a larger selection of software.
 
ubuntu - loving it
kubuntu - T.B.T
Pop Os - T.B.T
Deepin - Nope all in Kungfu letters
Manjaro - T.B.T
Mint - T.B.T (Long time ago)
Elementary - T.B.T
Zorin - T.B.T
Linux Lite - meh
 
I'm struggling with wifi on Ubuntu. It keeps on disconnecting. Not sure why can't find a reason why. Windows was not doing it on the same laptop on the same wifi so I know it's an Ubuntu issue.
 
cavedog said:
I'm struggling with wifi on Ubuntu. It keeps on disconnecting. Not sure why can't find a reason why. Windows was not doing it on the same laptop on the same wifi so I know it's an Ubuntu issue.
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Do not have that issue, have you done the:
sudo su
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
 
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