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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Windows is hell, i need to do something (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Yo linux team, i would love some advice.

I’m pretty mad at windows, 11 keeps getting worse and worse and I pretty done with Bill’s fetishes about bing and ai. Who knows where’s cortana right now…

Anyway, I heard about this new company called Linux and I’m open to try new stuff. I’m a simple guy and just need some basic stuff:

graphic stuff: affinity, canva, corel, gimp etc.. (no adobe anymore, please don’t ask.)
3d modelling and render: blender, rhino, cinema, keyshot
video editing: davinci
some little coding in Dart/flutter (i use VS code, I don’t know if this is good or bad)
a working file explorer (can’t believe i have to say this)
NO FUCKIN ADS
NO MF STUPID ASS DISGUSTING ADVERTISING

The tricky part is the laptop, a zenbook duo pro (i9-10/rtx2060), with double touch screens.

I tried ubuntu several years ago but since it wasn’t ready for my use i never went into different distros and their differences. Now unfortunately, ready or not, I need to switch.

Edit: the linux-company thing is just for triggering people, sorry I didn’t know it was this effective.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

In my experience?

Mint has been around longer and has had more of the lumps smoothed out. Mint, and their flagship DE Cinnamon, has always been about actual usability. There's a pragmatic streak that runs through Mint that isn't there in some other distros.

It has been my experience that Mint is usually the one that "just works" and the one that "continues to just work." Cinnamon's UI strikes a balance between KDE's "ALL THE FEATURES! MAXIMUM CLUTTER!" approach and Gnome's "Nuance doesn't exist, implement as little functionality as possible so the window stays empty and beautiful" approach. You won't find yourself asking "why can't it do this?" the way you do with Gnome-based distros. You don't have to start installing extensions just to get things that were considered basic features twenty years ago. You aren't sent to the terminal particularly often, you can genuinely manage most of the system from the GUI.

I would also say that Cinnamon is going to be more familiar to a Windows user than Gnome. Trying to use Gnome the way Windows users are used to handling things, say by minimizing and maximizing windows, is deliberately a pain in the ass on Gnome, and has a tendency to make newcomers think "Man this shit is unusable." Cinnamon doesn't have that problem; it's still fun convincing people that I'm running Windows 9.