minus-squareCaveman@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advicelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·18 hours agoFirst pick a desktop environment, currently KDE, Gnome and Cinnamon are the best. Gnome: Opinionated design like apple KDE: tons of options. Cinnamon: A bit fewer options than KDE but still a lot. All of them are very robust and have a massive user base. Then pick a base to operate on. Fedora, Ubuntu and Mint are all good options. Fedora and Ubuntu are good for newer hardware and 99% of the time just works. Mint just works all the except for newer hardware. Nvidia GPUs are not a big issue but you have to install the proprietary driver yourself for best performance and fewest bugs. My pick for you is something your friend uses if you have a friend on Linux otherwise Fedora KDE or Kubuntu. linkfedilink
First pick a desktop environment, currently KDE, Gnome and Cinnamon are the best.
All of them are very robust and have a massive user base.
Then pick a base to operate on. Fedora, Ubuntu and Mint are all good options.
Nvidia GPUs are not a big issue but you have to install the proprietary driver yourself for best performance and fewest bugs.
My pick for you is something your friend uses if you have a friend on Linux otherwise Fedora KDE or Kubuntu.