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What distro for creative use switching from windows (feddit.org)

submitted 2 days ago by bmpvy@feddit.org to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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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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[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

This only applies if you install an LTS release. LTS stands for "Long Term Support".

Every April and October, a new Ubuntu version is published. On Aprils, they additionally publish an LTS version, which does as described above. Its main point is that there has been plenty of time to see that the versions of programs used indeed have no bugs, so basically the whole point of LTS is it being outdated.

Of course, you can just install an Ubuntu version that is not LTS, and you won't have to problems of having an LTS version.

But yeah, Linux Mint is better than Ubuntu for newbies. While it's also nice that it's less restricted than Ubuntu, more improtantly they put a lot of effort into ease-of-use. Since Linux Mint is made by taking the newest Ubuntu version and modifying it, whatever instructions you find for Ubuntu also apply for Linux Mint (except in some rare cases where Linux Mint has modified that part of Ubuntu. Usually the modifications in Linux Mint are to the user interface only, so usually this doesn't matter)

I'm currently running an Ubuntu LTS because that happened to be preinstalled on this computer when I bought it and for my uses it works absolutely fine. And is definitely stable in all circumstances. But, for graphical editing, you might want to stay on the bleeding edge regarding your tools, and that means an LTS is not for you. Non-LTS Ubuntu might very well be, but Linux Mint is a little better yet.