Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill

On 6/27/25 5:19 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:

How can we weed out the bad distros and only install good distros?  I hope it's not a random thing.
 And how many distros are there?  Is there a good method to navigate all these distros?  Maybe something like a distro explorer, or distro browser?

Hi Hank,
Mist in really, really dumbed down.  They did an excellent
job of it too.  It is wonderful for Linux starters and
low skill users
Arch is bleeding edge and not for the faint of heart.
UBooboo (Ubunto) is the most popular.  But it has received
criticism for not being entirely open source (meaning some
spying) and for not be as well maintained as it use to be.
Fedora is next to bleeding edge and the second most
popular.  It is also gain ground quickly against UBooboo
and will probably overtake it in a couple of years.
Fedora is well maintained.  The mailing list has
genius level guys on it (think super Pauls) and they
are very helpful.  Fedora is my choice.
And speaking of choice, you have several choices of GUI.
If you are a somewhat skilled and a power user of Windows,
KDE is a great choice.  It what Windows 7 was based on.
It is very easy to use and is really powerful.  And
its community is vibrant.
You can fly before you buy too:
    https://fedoraproject.org/spins/
Rufus in Windows can burn Flash drives for you.
HTH,
-T