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^^

(Picture shows the lilac and blueish ports that we had for mouse and keyboard back “in my days” with the words “How old are you” - “Me:” on top - just because this community semmingly requires a picture added)

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Personally, I would recommend, if you’re doing a lot of different things, just switching to a distro that is user friendly and not specialized* like Linux Mint and building up from there. I would hazard a guess that if a program works on a different Linux distro, it’s probably gonna work on Mint, especially if it’s something bigger like Flowblade, KDENLive, or others since a lot of companies tend to focus on development for Ubuntu ( which is what Mint is based on ) if they make Linux ports of their software.

    I don’t know the state of the software repositories they use, but if it isn’t in there, it’s probably gonna be available as a flatpak¹ or appimage² ( and probably be more up to date than the default repository something like Mint will use ) if it’s available on Linux. If you went through Tuxedo, the chances of the hardware not working for most modern distro that isn’t some obscure, niche distro is low, so I don’t think that matters as much.

    *Specialized as in a distro making a distro with mainly one thing, like playing games, in mind.

    ¹ Flatpak and AppImage are kinda universal. For flatpak, to start, I’d recommend going to the flathub website to find what you need if you aren’t comfortable with a command terminal. Copy the command they give to install into a terminal and it should do a default installation. Most distros should have it installed and enabled by default at this point.

    ² AppImages are more like self contained programs containing everything it needs to run and will take up more space for the convenience of not needing to use the terminal to install or run.