All of them! I have Ubuntu 24LTS on my desktop, prepping Mint for a utility machine, testing Manjaro and Endeavor in VMs, not sure what distro I will move my laptop to yet.
Oh, in that case, and considering the list of devices you’re updating, you might be interested in putting Linux From Scratch on one of the disposable devices:
I wouldn’t run it as my main driver, but it’s a book that steps you through each package to manually compile until you have a fully working system. It’s pretty error prone but along the way you learn how most of the pieces fit together. It’s probably still a bit much for now but I thought I’d mention it
Not familiar enough with the differences. Plus I’ll learn it better if I have to figure out all the ways to do a task instead of just one. Nano or Emacs or Vim? KDE or Gnome? Too much to choose from! :)
Yeah, there’s plenty to get overwhelmed in. If the overhead becomes a bit, then any of them are probably good enough and either way you’ll work out what you like
A friend of mine did something that might work for you: he used genAI as a linux tutor. It’s one of the better use cases I’ve heard for it, if you’re not ethically opposed. Just make sure to double check something more official before you run a command and accidentally destroy something
Ubuntu 24.04 is doing well for me. I use the cinnamon flavor. Switch the scheduler to performance, before that with multiple apps open while gaming there was stuttering it the CPU load was below a certain amount (Ryzen 5800X). After switching to performance all stuttering was gone.
Liquorix Kernel is something else I am looking at utilizing since I also edit 4K 60FPS video on the same computer.
Finally switching to Linux!
Nice. Have you chosen a distro?
I picked cachy because I was always curious about Arch and I’m LoveHating every second of it.
All of them! I have Ubuntu 24LTS on my desktop, prepping Mint for a utility machine, testing Manjaro and Endeavor in VMs, not sure what distro I will move my laptop to yet.
<Insert highly subjective complaint about choice of distro here>
Either way, another soul saved. Great to have you on board!
I still have Azure certs, and Microsoft is still my job. But… if I can make my job moving others off Microsoft, many souls can be saved.
Oh, in that case, and considering the list of devices you’re updating, you might be interested in putting Linux From Scratch on one of the disposable devices:
https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
I wouldn’t run it as my main driver, but it’s a book that steps you through each package to manually compile until you have a fully working system. It’s pretty error prone but along the way you learn how most of the pieces fit together. It’s probably still a bit much for now but I thought I’d mention it
Nice. Why the spread and not mostly sticking with one flavour?
Not familiar enough with the differences. Plus I’ll learn it better if I have to figure out all the ways to do a task instead of just one. Nano or Emacs or Vim? KDE or Gnome? Too much to choose from! :)
Yeah, there’s plenty to get overwhelmed in. If the overhead becomes a bit, then any of them are probably good enough and either way you’ll work out what you like
A friend of mine did something that might work for you: he used genAI as a linux tutor. It’s one of the better use cases I’ve heard for it, if you’re not ethically opposed. Just make sure to double check something more official before you run a command and accidentally destroy something
Ubuntu 24.04 is doing well for me. I use the cinnamon flavor. Switch the scheduler to performance, before that with multiple apps open while gaming there was stuttering it the CPU load was below a certain amount (Ryzen 5800X). After switching to performance all stuttering was gone.
Liquorix Kernel is something else I am looking at utilizing since I also edit 4K 60FPS video on the same computer.