Noooooob here: As title said - I don’t know what distro I should choose. My needs are student stuff like Libreoffice & Videoconferences but also creative things, photo-management and cutting videos. Does it matter at all? Do I have to check for every single program I use or is there a distro that is recommended?

I was planning on getting a Tuxedo with Tuxedo OS, but my neighbour recommended another “no os”-seller and now I’m not sure. I was opting for Tuxedo mainly because of the support since I’m leaving windows after many years^^

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    6 days ago

    I’d use a major distro that’s been around a while. Avoids having them vanish.

    Does it matter? Well, different package system. Some different conventions. Some different defaults. You can make an Arch Linux machine look identical to a Debian machine look identical to a Fedora machine if you want.

    Tuxedo OS is Ubuntu LTS with some minor modifications and some drivers from Tuxedo pre-installed. I use a Tuxedo laptop running Debian just fine. You’re probably fine with Tuxedo OS if you’re happy with it.