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[–] SnowySkyes@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It’s always a good time to switch to Linux. Some distributions are super easy to learn, while others require some minor knowledge to really get off the ground. Here are a few of my recommendations.

Linux Mint - https://linuxmint.com/

Ubuntu - https://www.ubuntu.com

Debian - https://www.debian.org/

Fedora - https://fedoraproject.org/

I personally use Debian. It is my favorite of the bunch mentioned. It requires some configuration for me to get up to where I need it, but it runs flawlessly once I’m there.

Linux Mint is really good for users switching for the first time. It is also my recommendation for new Linux users. Its default look and feel is akin to Windows and users will feel right at home out of the box.

Ubuntu is similar in usability to Mint, but Canonical isn’t great and has made some very poor decisions in the past. Doesn’t have a Windows like interface by default, but is really hard to break if I remember correctly (I haven’t used Ubuntu in probably 8+ years so take all this with some salt)

Fedora I have the least experience with. It seems to be a hit or miss distribution, but some may find their home here. Also ships with an interface that windows users would need time to adjust to.

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am actually experiencing critical issues with my Windows. Care to give your recommendations regarding Debian configuration?

Also, if I may, when manually installing Arch, how does one properly set up fstab when there are multiple mounting points that are not nested, like in the case of /efi/ not being within where the root partition is mounted?

[–] neo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't really understand your fstab question as you wrote it, but why aren't you using either genfstab or letting archinstall just do all the tedious parts for you?

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, I do use genfstab.

I am doing this manually for educational purposes.

EDIT: I have been following the installation guide on a vital machine prior to my Windows malfunction. Among the partition examples I saw ones that have root and efi partitions mounted in a non-nested way. Generating fstab the way it is told in the guide produced a bad fstab for me. I haven't got to retrying to generate fstab since then yet.

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