Jokes on you. I use Ubuntu with no GUI.
I mean most of my headless servers are running Ubuntu 🤷
The inky blacks of my terminal window match both my apparel and my soul.
What’s the best Linux distro for an easy switch from Windows?
Thank you everyone!! My PC is being left behind by Windows 11.
+1 to Mint. It is a very easy transition & you will not have ragerts.
Pros:
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prettier than windows while having a similar interface
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more responsive than windows
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more stable than windows
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zero spyware/bloatware
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basically the same level of software compatibility as windows
Only things that take some research ahead of time or getting used to imo:
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deciding how you want to partition your drives during installation (you can let it automatically do this, but there are reasons to create a different partition structure across drives/have different sized partitions),
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mounting drives. There are GUI tools for this (file explorer for mounting, gparted for formatting), so it really isn’t a big deal, but it is a little more difficult than with Windows and you may need to reformat your drives depending what file format they’re currently in.
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make sure your motherboard/video card/cpu all work well with linux. They should, but just check first.
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note that games requiring kernel level anticheat (aka spyware) won’t work. So if that’s a deal breaker, then dual boot or don’t switch.
prettier than windows while having a similar interface
uhh…
more stable than windows
Not if you have multiple screens and want to zoom the interface or something. I remember there was a massive bug with this
basically the same level of software compatibility as windows
Except all Adobe software, video editing software, many windows only software, the full Office suite
So, no, that’s just false
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Who the fuck still uses Ubuntu in 2025?
Me, I just have never reinstalled my OS partition in 15ish years
Me, because someone at my work picked it for servers back in the day
Me.
Fair enough, have a nice day.
Me, using server software that explicitly requires using an official Ubuntu distro as a dependency
Mint on the main laptop tho.
Cannocial knows what they’re doing like Redhat. Many of the smaller distros are insecure because they’re run by a small group of volunteers who don’t entirely know what they’re doing.
You know who else is, publicly, very confident in what they’re doing? Microsoft.
Genius. All large business is evil and incompetent.
Small problem, I wrote competent, not confident. As in a competent person would have noticed I typed “knows what they’re doing” and omitted Novel. Or know the security history of distros like mint.
