Mastodawn

Got to keep my work laptop and just realised that I'm now free to ditch Windows and install Linux. It's a Thinkpad E14 gen 3 with AMD Ryzen 5, 16 gb ram and a 256 gb ssd. I dabbled with Mint a long time ago but consider myself a somewhat informed newbie, who now has the time to experiment and learn.

So I'm looking for tips and advice about which distro I should check out, what I should take into account and anything that can help me with this project.

#askfedi #linuxhelp

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randomwizard 2d ago

@vitskapsdama I think if you have installed Mint in the past, you pretty much can not go wrong whatever distro you pick (as long as it is one of the popular ones).

https://distrowatch.com

Although, I caution people who have never used linux before that it is not quite windows or macosx. It can have lots of issues (or not).

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Vitskapsdama

@randomwizard Thanks! I need to reset this laptop anyway, so I figured that may as well use it to experiment with Linux. I don't need it to be functional at the moment.