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List of European Linux Distributions (inspired by blaze's post) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A note! the desktop field is completely optional! You can install any other desktop you like, but the listed are the "main" ones, usually recommended by the distro.

Linux Mint

Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Experience: Simple
Desktop: Cinnamon

Best distro for beginners. has two versions: One based off of ubuntu (default), and another one debian (recommended, LMDE)

https://www.linuxmint.com/

Ubuntu

Country: Britain 🇬🇧
Experience: Simple
Desktop: GNOME

Good distro, but has some controversies. Though it's the most popular beginners distro by far.

https://ubuntu.com/

EndeavourOS

Country: Netherlands 🇳🇱
Experience: Intermediate
Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

My second favorite :) Arch based, easy installer and updater, friendly community and beautiful themes. I recommend this distro if you are into arch based distros without wanting the painful part of it.

https://endeavouros.com/

OpenSUSE

Country: Germany 🇩🇪
Experience: Intermediate
Desktop: KDE

It's mainly built around using the GUI, with tools like yast. Uses KDE.

https://www.opensuse.org/

Manjaro

Country: Germany 🇩🇪 / Austria 🇦🇹 / France🇫🇷
Experience: Intermediate
Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

Added because of popular recommendation. I recommend EndeavourOS more, since manjaro has a... history.

https://manjaro.org/

NixOS

Country: Netherlands 🇳🇱
Experience: Advanced
Desktop: KDE/GNOME

My personal favorite <3 Great for servers. It's not for the faint of heart, though hah. It's an immutable distro, where there is no package manager, or manually modifying config files; your entire system is created with .nix files, not commands. Reproducable.

https://nixos.org/

Arch

Country: Canada 🇨🇦 (Yes yes, it's not european but how can you not mention arch???)
Experience: Advanced
Desktop: None

Most popular distro for dedicated users, and for good reason; bleeding edge, full power over your system. Though you have to manually set up everything, from internet to your deskop environment.

Void

Country: Spain 🇪🇸
Experience: Advanced
Desktop: XFCE

Great distro if you want something like arch, but without systemd or slightly more stable (Also, musl support). Obscure but amazing.

https://voidlinux.org/

Debian [Honorary mention]

Country: Global 🌍
Experience: Intermediate
Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

An honorary mention. Isn't suited for everyone, but is the golden standard for servers, and the grandfather of a huge family tree of distros.

https://www.debian.org/

VanillaOS [Honorary mention]

Country: Global 🌍️
Experience: Advanced
Desktop: GNOME

VanillaOS is a debian-based immutable operating system, which can install packages from any other distro and is very hard to brick.

https://vanillaos.org/

That should cover a lot. Please heed the desktop warning, and please correct me/comment suggestions. This is not perfect, so please do criticize where possible c:

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Some weeks ago Mint and GraphyOS seemed to be one of the bigger suggestions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Is LMDE also the one that would be recommended for beginners or, as one, should I stick to the Ubuntu-based?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

What about Zorin? I think it is one of the best to Show Windows users a Linux experience.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I'm currently wondering whether this is going in the right direction. I understand that we are boycotting commercial products from the US, which makes perfect sense to me. But as someone who works on FOSS software myself, I wonder if we are hurting the right people by not using FOSS software that comes from the US. I think these are largely people who don't support Trump.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

If you look at a lot of the other posts they're more along the lines of "these companies are based in the EU".... and that's it. Not why they're better than the US based equivalents or why the US based ones are worth boycotting.

And to a certain extent I understand that. But the signal to noise ratio has lowered considerably in the past few weeks.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What about Ubuntu? Canonical is based in London (registered in the Isle of Man iirc).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I'm guessing because Ubuntu is not as "hip" as it once was. Don't see Fedora there either and those two would be the largest, right? I know it's main sponsor used to be red hat and that's what it is based on, but it too could be in the honourable mentions section.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Curiously, Debian images/ISOs are hosted on servers in Sweden.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mint has a few desktops, including KDE

https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-kde-plasma-on-linux-mint-22/

I have Cinnamon Mint on my laptop, was thinking of checking this out as I do like the KDE desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I keep a Mint XFCE installed (not installer, installed) on a thumb drive that looks just like a mouse dongle. It's rescued so many computers... Like, at least six.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Linux Mint is honestly amazing. I always read about it being labeled as "for beginners" or being "boring" almost as if that's a bad thing. I just wanted something that works out of the box and not take on a new hobby.. And I got just that with Linux Mint. Highly recommended

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I've been distro.hopping for years. I am now setting up my new home server and because I plan to also use it as a daily driver, Linux Mint is my choice. It just works. I like KDE, but it gives me too much choice, so Cinnamon it is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just wanted something that works out of the box and not take on a new hobby…

That's it, I have plenty of things to tinker with but, on my laptops and desktops, I really don't want to have to do much messing about. I just need to install and go. I'm currently on Ubuntu but it'd be rude of me not to try Mint, especially now I know it is from Ireland.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Good to know! Being a Canadian, I'm pretty determined to transfer over to linux before Microsoft stops supporting windows 10 but have been pretty intimidated by various horror stories etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If it breaks more is because you are free to do more with it. Just try dual booting or even just via a live "install". There's nothing to lose and a lot to gain.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Canadian person! If you break it, ask me and I will do my best to non-snarkily assist. I am working on becoming less snarky, so it's practice!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Also, I like Mint. Back in the day, I had an obscure wifi issue, asked Twitter, and Clem himself replied with a one-liner that fixed me right up.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Manjaro was originally German/French. It is more international now, but still:

The Manjaro project is backed by Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG, an open source driven company.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Wait Arch is Canadian?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

RTFM

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can Debian not be added here? Linux Mint is based on Debian, and no company owns Debian.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Added!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

edit: wrong info

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Nooooooo I use elementary 😭

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Unless you're paying for it somehow, I think ur good 😭 FOSS doesnt tend to be included in economic boycotts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Never used elementary but always admired it. A shame :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

The good thing about Linux is that you don't buy it

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I’m pleasantly surprised by the country origins of Arch and Mint.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I chose Mint basically because it is European distro. Secondly because it uses Cinnamon and apt. It’s just a great way to replace Windows. Works like a charm, very easy to use and maintain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Yep. Honestly i'm just happy i got to recommend them here lol

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