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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^^

(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)

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[โ€“] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A PS/2. No, not the fun thing that plays games, it is just a connecter.

If you just want things to work I would suggest a Debian based distro like Ubuntu Studio. I have heard good things about these immutable systems, but I don't really have much experience with them.

On a side note, keyboards used to have a return key where the enter key is nowadays. It was for a carriage return which went to the new line. It was not for entering data into a field as there was a separate enter key for that.

[โ€“] bmpvy@feddit.org 2 points 22 hours ago

How old are you? ^^