>>7983114I've been hopping around distros after switching to linux a couple years ago and imo:
>I don't want to have to update often and I don't want shit to break, I'm ok with dealing with outdated software (can sometimes get around this with appimages, flatpak or compiling what you want yourself)Debian for a minimal install, Mint if you want more stuff set up for you by default (in Debian the install itself is pretty simple but you'll still have to create a user, give it sudo rights if you intend to sudo, enable multilib if needed ie. for steam, adding nonfree repo to install nvidia drivers). There's wiki pages for all that stuff but if you don't feel like messing with that then just use Mint, it's basically what Ubuntu used to be and isn't now. Mint being based on Ubuntu repos also means you often get slightly more up-to-date packages than on Debian.
>I want up-to-date and can deal with fixing shit that breaks if neededArch is generally pretty good. There's Endeavor (used to be Antergos iirc) if you want an easier install with more stuff set up for you by default. Manjaro is basically just a worse Endeavour that's more prone to breakage under certain circumstances.
There's plenty of other distros for more niche uses too, but these are imo the best picks at the moment. That said, even the ones that justwerk, depending what games you wanna play you're probably gonna have to learn wine troubleshooting shit. Unless you only use emulators (which pretty much all have linux native versions either standalone or through retroarch) and steam (generally things justwerk here) anyway. Also I recommend Cinnamon or XFCE for DE depending on whether you want something modern looking or with good retro themes. Openbox or icewm for window manager.
>>7983231How's Artix treating you? Returned to Arch from Gentoo a couple days ago and I'm still not really feeling systemd compared to OpenRC.
