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I see lots of recommendations for Fedora here. I like Fedora but it tends to be a tad bleeding edge and major version upgrades used to be impossible or sketchy at best. I hope they at least largely worked out the upgrade thing by now.
Mint and Ubuntu are usually the best recommendation for people new to the Linux world. Bazzite if they are into gaming.
It starts to feel a bit like going to university. Maybe 10% of the ones you try out will be total misses, maybe even discourage you on the search. But chances are, 90% of the options are perfectly suitable for your uses, and everyone will end up feeling a bit of faithful loyalty to their destination of choice.
CentOS 3.6
I'm running kubuntu which I find runs well with no issues (Intel with an NVIDIA card) and plays every game Ive tried to play. I chose kubuntu because I'm more experienced with debian based distros and I like KDE, but I do feel like maybe I should have gone with fedora and KDE instead. Can't really be bothered to distro hop right now though.
So I put kubuntu on my bf's laptop (intel/nvidia), and it's been a painfully bad experience.
Interesting, what hasn't worked? Im running a desktop so might be having less issues due to less bespoke hardware.
I ran it on an Intel/NVIDIA laptop about 10 years ago and had a lot of trouble getting the graphics to work well, particularly the Optimus switching. It never felt like it was working properly and graphics were always sub par to what I got running windows. It was a long time ago in computing terms though.
That entirely depends on what you're using it for. I personally use ZorinOS as my daily driver because it's easy to use, based on Ubuntu, and I like the interface.
If you're using the PC for gaming, go with Nobara. It's based on Fedora and has built-in support for Nvidia.
If you want to emulate the meme, LFS.
the best distro is the distro you like most out of the ones that work for whatever it is you do on your pc
Pop OS. I don't even like Mac OS but Pop just feels so good! I've used it on 3 different computers now without problems. Ubuntu tutorials usually work if you need to tweak something. Only downside is it's a private company, but it's released free and is well supported.
OK but not if you use Fedora
Assuming you're a hobbyist who wants to play games, CatxhyOS or Mint would be my suggestion
I like Ubuntu too, but Snaps can be annoying with permission weirdness and odd errors that usually stem from their sandboxing system. To be clear the sandboxing is good in theory, but I tried using the Blender to edit a file I got from a friend and I ran into permissions issues. I ended up deleting the snaps and installing from command line and it was so much better.
Installing blender without the app store is still super easy...
sudo apt install blender
In this thread: people proselytizing their favourite distro and telling you how your computer suits their distro -- not necessarily the best distro for your computer.
