I usually go to www.distrowatch.com. They do a good job with reviews and updates.

Move where?

Shows that the only true end to end encryption is when the sender and recipient do the encrypting/decrypting locally. Even then, it requires both ends not to be compromised.

It’s why I can’t wait to get my hands on a Harmony NextOS phone. Given the choice, I’d just as soon turn my data over to the Chinese as to Google and 5-Eyes.

distrowatch<dot>com will give you a good overview of almost all distros and is a good place to start your search.

Why is there a dead cat in my box?

And even at 50%, Nvidia still won’t release Linux drivers.

At the moment, my hope is to be able to land a Harmony NextOS phone soon. I’d just as soon cough up data to the Chinese as 5-Eyes and Google.

You never see it mentioned, but PCLOS is a great Linux starter OS. It was started by Bill Reynolds, TexStar, and is tock solid. It is my go-to when installing Linux for new users because it is extremely stable, has a great community, and avoids anything bleeding edge.

www.distrowatch.com is a great place to get an overview of most Linux and BSD distros.

Do they sell ASUS in your area? I bought a 2nd hand 14" Vivobook with a Ryzen 5 GPU and it runs Fedora 42 like a champ. First laptop I’ve ever owned that I don’t worry about overheating. It’s been my chuck-it-in-a-backpack travel machine for two years with no problems.

The government is closing in on replacing all government PCs. https://techhq.com/news/open-source-china-linux-kylin-kernel-desktop-de-microsoft/

I think we are looking in the wrong direction. China is the place to watch for an explosive growth of Linux and the exclusion of M$-Mossad. They have committed to replacing Windoze on all government computers and servers with KylinOS by 2026. This is not a city here and a city there, but the entire country. PC and Laptop makers will then offer units with openKylinOS. Not sure if phones will follow suit, or switch to Harmony Next.

I’ve discovered that I don’t much care which distro I’m using, it’s the DE that matters most. I have Fedora GNOME, Debian GNOME, and openSUSE GNOME running on different machines. I can’t really tell much difference until I enter the command line or package manager, and even then, it’s the front end of the command that changes while the backend stays mostly the same. Flatpak has made the difference between distros even fewer.

Slackware users, “Those Arch users are crazy.”

Just another tool in the toolbox. Use it or not, up to the user. I’ve even seen Slackware users who say they use Flatpak to ward off dependency rabbit holes.

Question for the tech savvy, why Linux instead of FreeBSD? China’s KylinOS started out as a FreeBSD fork before switching gears to Linux. Wouldn’t the FreeBSD license be better suited to governments?

I’ve found that any of the top distros work just fine. It’s the Desktop Environment that I interact with most often, so I’d spend some time studying which is most comfortable. (I’m a Gnome man myself.) Go to distrowatch.com as they do a pretty good job describing each distro and their standard packages.

And this is why we can never have nice things.

I didn’t drop Linux because Nvidia didn’t play nice, I dropped Nvidia because it didn’t support Linux.

Any major distro will work, it’s the Desktop Environment that you’ll want to examine. Whether GNOME, KDE, Xfce, etc. the DE is what you’ll mostly deal with when computing. Try distrowatch.com for a good overview of various flavors. I, personally, have always started newbies off with PCLOS with KDE, as Tex tends to avoid the bleeding edge in favor of stability.