Advice Request Which Linux OS best for everyday work?

[lokamoka820]

There are many good Linux distros to choose from, start with Linux Mint if you are new to Linux, then you will know your way after that by trying other distros.

 

[misterman2100]

Check out this: Test Linux distros online - DistroSea

Gives you a good idea about different distros out there.

You cannot go wrong with a mainstream distro in terms of security updates and levels of unofficial support via forums or other social platforms. You can, within reason , add anything you would like to a distro.

I would highly recommend having a flash drive with more than 4GB available to really test drive a distro on your hardware. There are things that might need to be ironed out or it might be smooth sailing.

If you want a fun read about Linux distros, check out Dedoimedo - the guy is a riot.

 

[simmerskool]

fwiw, I stepped away from fedora 41 for a few days, returned this evening and it had 97 system updates. Not a big deal, except after a reboot (in VMware) the reboot balked aka froze on a black screen and never went to login! But fedora is robust and chatgpt suggested do x then y, and all good again. that was my first fedora snafu, and overall very minor.

 

[Victor M]

Decided to give Manjaro a try on my spare laptop since @TuxTalk says it's good. A little diversion for the evening.

Security wise it uses ufw firewall and apparmor. And it support snaps, so I uninstalled firefox, and installed the snap version, which has better security: apparmor + seccomp + containment.

I was a bit disappointed to find only 3 updates. It's Nov 24 now and the iso release date was on Oct 1st. There should be more than 3. That's a bad sign. Patches must be provided quickly.

Back to Fedora I go.

 

[simmerskool]

Decided to give Manjaro a try on my spare laptop since @TuxTalk says it's good. A little diversion for the evening.

Security wise it uses ufw firewall and apparmor. And it support snaps, so I uninstalled firefox, and installed the snap version, which has better security: apparmor + seccomp + containment.

I was a bit disappointed to find only 3 updates. It's Nov 24 now and the iso release date was on Oct 1st. There should be more than 3. That's a bad sign. Patches must be provided quickly.

Back to Fedora I go.

f-e-d-o--r---a!! yes! but Manjaro is a distro I keep on the side ready to go -- like it (not that my opinion re linux distros means anything).
PS fedora did NOT have an update for me this morning! a first.

 

[TuxTalk]

Decided to give Manjaro a try on my spare laptop since @TuxTalk says it's good. A little diversion for the evening.

Security wise it uses ufw firewall and apparmor. And it support snaps, so I uninstalled firefox, and installed the snap version, which has better security: apparmor + seccomp + containment.

I was a bit disappointed to find only 3 updates. It's Nov 24 now and the iso release date was on Oct 1st. There should be more than 3. That's a bad sign. Patches must be provided quickly.

Back to Fedora I go.

As soon as you run Manjaro it updates, no need to worry about the iso build date.

* but currently not running any Linux Distro, i am quite happy with Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC.

 

[goodjohnjr]

Ubuntu LTS.

 

[Captain Awesome]

Ubuntu LTS.

LTS Is excellent

 

[goodjohnjr]

LTS Is excellent

And with a free Ubunto Pro account, you can get 10 years of updates for each Ubuntu LTS release.

 

[Victor M]

As soon as you run Manjaro it updates

I performed the install Offline. And did not connect my USB Ethernet adapter until I needed to update. So perhaps I missed the update you are talking about. And that update I did only brought down 3 packages.

 

[TuxTalk]

I performed the install Offline. And did not connect my USB Ethernet adapter until I needed to update. So perhaps I missed the update you are talking about. And that update I did only brought down 3 packages.

Should be around 80-90 packages

 

[Victor M]

OK I will test again. Or maybe they updated the ISO after the initial release.