What distro should I use?

This always feels like a loaded question. I don’t believe there is a one choice that is “right.”

After distro hopping and trying many, I have come to a few realizations for myself.

There are a few factors to consider:

• What Desktop Environment (if any…): KDE, GNOME, XFCE, Cosmic, etc (this gets a bit more complicated depending on if you don’t want a desktop environment. You could just go CLI or with just a Window Manager like Hyprland, Sway, i3, or others I’m unfamiliar with.)
• What package manager are you comfortable with? And what style of package management do you want? Do you want older but tested and more stable? Do you want bleeding edge?
• Is systemd a deal breaker for you?

Really what I am getting at, you don’t know what you don’t know. So test out many! You can do this in a Virtual Machine with Virtualbox on Windows before switching.

I have been running my own dockerized instance of SeaeXNG for years now. I love it. I have it setup behind a reverse proxy to serve a cert for https and I am always VPN’d into my home network (split tunnel for only apps I want to use my home network anyways) and it has been working like a charm.

Search results are reliable, and it’s customizable.

Hey valid complaints. As someone not in the need for professional editing tools i felt I’d be better to ask than to assume! Thank you for sharing

How is running windows in a virtual machine going to get stopped? Please elaborate.

Can I ask you what “sucks” about GIMP?