Hi. Today I will bring to you my top 3 Linux distributions that I would recommend for everyone, depending on the individual necessities of everyone. Hope you enjoy!
"I just want to install and have everything working!"
Well, if this is your goal, I would really recommend Pop_OS! Pop is definitely an amazing Linux distribution. It is based on Ubuntu (both 18.04 lts) and 19.10 version are available. Pop started as a Ubuntu clone, but now it turned out in a different project, with more hardware support, more things out of the box and with a impressive performance! Pop feels so fast to use, it's stable and is good for all user cases, you can be a gamer, a home officer or whatever you want to do. Pop is ready for you work. In the installation, they created their own installer, which made possible you encrypt all your files. This is an amazing option and makes so easy to everyone who wants a bit more of privacy to get it. For gamers, pop comes with discord, lutris, gamehub and a improved steam packaging available in the Pop Shop. Vulkan is already installed too, what means that you don't need to worry about installing it manually. Dark theme is also available in a very easy way. For Laptop users, pop is amazing too, because pop comes with a gnome extension that is very good to manage your laptop battery, meaning that you can just install pop and relax, with no need of installing and configuring another programs to battery life. Pop_OS! is my main system at the moment and I think I will be using it for a long time. System76 is the owner of pop OS and they are a hardware selling. They used to ship their laptops with Ubuntu, but with the problems that they users were complaining, they decided to build their own system, to make it more reliable. I am sure you will love to try it.Maybe, if you new in Linux, you would like to install dash to dock in pop just like you would love to install Ubuntu app indicators in pop os. Learn how to install dash to dock here and app indicators here: https://support.system76.com/articles/dash-to-dock/ and https://pop.system76.com/docs/status-icons/
Pop also has amazing articles and an amazing documentation in their site. So I think Pop deserve your attention. Download it at the link below:
To read more about the differences between pop and Ubuntu: https://pop.system76.com/docs/difference-between-pop-ubuntu/
(Obs: Pop has an iso for nvidia card graphics and for intel/amd card graphics. So choose the right one for your computer.)
"I want to learn a as much as possible about linux world"
Nice. So if you are using linux for a while, or maybe you are new but want something more challenging, I would definitely recommend Reborn OS. It is a arch based distro, which revived the antergos linux distro. They have a easy installer that puts over 15 desktop environments/windows managers in your choice. You can choose between deepin, gnome, kde, openbox, cinnamon, xfce and so on. During the installation, you can also choose some additional programs during the installation, making everything easier for you. Though it has a lot of things to make the installation easier, I would not recommend it for beginners, because it's based on arch, and arch requires more knowledge because the system can "break" and you will need a more advanced knowledge to fix the things. I recommend reborn of course, but not for beginners. The most stables "versions of reborn" are gnome and kde. So I would recommend of those two you are a adventurous beginner. To make battery life better you can install tlp and your battery should be fine. Reborn is very clean and you should not have any performance problem with it, even in slower machines. If you installed gnome and got some performance problems in games, try to change to a xorg session instead of the default wayland session that is used in reborn.
You can know more about reborn in their official site: https://rebornos.org/ and get some support at their official discord: https://discord.gg/Z6j9uWB
That is it!
"I want something different and try to learn something new"
If you want a different distro that is different that everything you have seen before, I would recommend Solus OS! Solus is a linux distribution made from scratch that uses your own package manager (eopkg) and has its own repositories. Solus has a lot of usefull apps in its repository (lutris, feral gamemode, vscode, spotify) and comes with snap and flatpak installed out of the box. The performance will impress you. You can choose solus in budgie version (its own desktop environment), plasma, gnome or mate. Solus is very clean but sometimes can have some strange bugs, what is normal for anything made from scratch I guess. Solus is easy for beginners and its very stable. For laptops, I would say that battery duration is ok, but far from pop for example. If you have some intel hd graphics in your pc and feel some slow performance, you can try to unnistall xorg driver for intel in solus. Solus is clean, fast and performant in most situations.
You can check in the official site: https://getsol.us/download/
That is it!
