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No operating system meets those criteria, open source or commercial.
No operating system meets those criteria, open source or commercial.
lol yeah, I remember installing Beryl on my laptop to show off the wild desktop effects at university.
got a lot of attention, but not many people interested in linux in the long ron
If your goal is to run Linux, do some normal desktop stuff, and try some games, you will do no programming.
There’s a good chance you won’t need the command line either (at first, anyway).
Linux is a very deep lake, but you don’t need to buy scuba gear and learn underwater welding if you’re just looking to spend a sunny day at the beach.
Pop!_OS is a great place to start. I suggest just getting the ISO and having a go. If you need help, start by reading the official guide:
https://support.system76.com/articles/install-pop/
I always suggest starting with the official documentation. If you ask people on forums, it’s hard to tell who is a beach-goer, and who spends their days in scuba gear salvaging sunken ships.
IMO Ubuntu has been the best bet for linux on the desktop since about 2006.
They occasionally do things people dislike, but it’s always easy to pick a different flavour (Xubuntu and Ubuntu-mate are great examples IMO), and the underlying distro is reliable and stable.
I’m also a big fan of LTS releases, and supported upgrade paths between them.
/2c
The company that under-promises won’t win the bid, though. Unfortunately the norm now is to overpromise, and then squeeze as many extra fees and concessions out of the project as possible.
There’s also a culture of contractors vs engineers where limits willingness to work together to find solutions. “not my fault”.