that’s one of the reasons i think Lenovo has won the laptop war, they include all operating systems and make it very easy to install any on your device, i love Ubuntu a lot, and chromeOS too
that’s one of the reasons i think Lenovo has won the laptop war, they include all operating systems and make it very easy to install any on your device, i love Ubuntu a lot, and chromeOS too
Curious - what do you prefer wrt other distros? I’m just fascinated by what drives people in their individual directions. (I used to exclusively install Debian on things, but recently revitalized an old laptop by wiping windows and putting on Ubuntu. Have used CentOS too, but the Debian package stuff is just easy for me…)
I prefer Mint for ease of installation and use. It comes in Ubuntu or Debian flavors.
I also have a RaspberryPi that runs Raspbian (Debian based, I think) and a tiny Linode server that runs Debian. Honestly, I tend to go with the easiest or most lightweight, depending on hardware.
I tend to like Debian-based. It’s just more familiar for me. Ubuntu has been nice because it seems to add in a few of the quality of life defaults I’d have done manually in Debian (things like aliases in bash, sudoers memberships, 3rd party repos, etc). Easily done in Debian, but slows down initial setup…
I ran CentOS for a while, but I feel life’s too short to learn yet another package management system! (not that is hard, I just have finite brain cells…) 🙂
I hear you about finite brain cells. I had a group of international students several year ago who ran Zorin on their laptops. As the tech coordinator for our academic department, I tried to learn enough to help them out. But it was apparently the first thing I flushed after they left. :)
Personally, I use Fedora KDE Spin because it’s stable, has an aggressive update schedule and if I want something from AUR or something, I’ll just use its OCI in distrobox and get it anyway. I also prefer flatpaks over snaps.
Much obliged!