I’m gonna vouch for EndeavourOS on this one. It’s Arch based but it has very sane defaults. It’s the spiritual successor to Antergos.
MrShelbs
joined 11 months ago
For sure. I daily drove it for a long time many years ago when it was starting.
I tried it again recently when I was looking for a Linux OS for my moms 2009 white MacBook, since the default DE wouldn’t be too hard for her to understand.
I forgot how you legit can’t customize anything without external tools, PPAs and DEB support is disabled and requires a terminal command to enable, which is not user friendly at all for people new to Linux. Their App Store is also super buggy and the updates would make it crash every time I tried to run them, so again, had to resort to the terminal.
Lastly, I was surprised at how poorly it ran. I know it has a Core 2 Duo and « only » 6 GB of RAM, but every other distro I tried (Solus, Mint Cinnamon, Fedora) ram perfectly fine.
It’s just sad because it used to be a nice distro IMO. Now I can’t see myself recommending it.
/rant over, sorry
Arch Linux all the way. I love the AUR, the Arch wiki (though it applies to a lot of distros) and customizable it is.
I’ve had a Mac for a few years, but the Linux « itch » came back and I couldn’t scratch it with macOS.
Now I see just how snappier Linux is compared to Windows or macOS on the same hardware and I really don’t wanna go back.
I came back to Linux about a month ago. I was nervous at first that my stuff wouldn’t work, it required a bit of tweaking to get everything how I want it, but I’m happy to be here :) I use Arch btw
You don’t. I don’t make the rules.