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@thumbsup.eth
Was watching a Chris Titus Tech video recently. The one where he reacted to LTT team doing a 30 day Linux challenge. In it he said that for most people new to Linux, he would recommend Bazzite because it's going to just work and it will be hard for them to break in a catastrophic way.
I agree completely with this. I'm really leaning towards recommending new folks try atomic distros and flatpaks, and only after they've become familiar with the ways in which Linux is different from Windows/MacOS, should they start branching out to more advanced and potentially risky setups.
I really like the looks of:
- Bluefin (gnome desktop, mac-like, dev focused)
- Aurora (KDE desktop, windows-like, dev focused)
- Bazzite (KDE or gnome desktop, gaming focused)
- Origami (Cosmic desktop, dev focused)
All of these are based on Fedora Atomic but built by other teams. For the official Fedora build, there's Silverblue (gnome), Kinoite (KDE), Atomic Sway, Atomic Budgie, Atomic Cosmic. In my opinion none of these is as compelling as the above alternatives. But they're probably still good options.
For Ubuntu purists, there's VanillaOS, which is an atomic ("immutable") distro based on Ubuntu. I even found one distro called ShaniOS which claims to be an Arch-based immutable desktop, but I'm not so sure about that.
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@thumbsup.eth
Hot take: if you want to use Cosmic Desktop, you should not use Pop_OS! But instead use Origami, Fedora Cosmic Spin, or CachyOS with Cosmic Desktop.
Pop has a pretty long history of bugginess and it’s based on Ubuntu which has a pretty long history of bugginess (especially with respect to graphics cards and system updates)
Origami = opinionated, dev-centric Fedora atomic spin with cosmic
Fedora cosmic spin is just Fedora but with cosmic instead of Gnome or KDE
CachyOS is a polished Arch-based distro with quick and easy setup and one click setup for basically every desktop environment or window manager
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@highplains66
Want to use my Mac mini for music so I’m going back to my laptop but w Linux. Anything better than Ubuntu but still easy to use and lots of packages?
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@moo
Colorado Democrats suggest age verification on OS level, including Linux
https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2025313056352600341
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@kazani
If you are worried about how something will go when you install it, you can test it before you commit it.
https://ostechnix.com/linux-dry-run-flag-guide-beginners/
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@thumbsup.eth
The state of Linux music players in 2026
https://crescentro.se/posts/linux-music-players-2026/
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@thumbsup.eth
This Jellyfin desktop music player app for Linux is making a lot of progress.
https://github.com/Fingel/gelly
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@kazani
A list of software alternatives and resources for professional audio video and live events production on Linux
https://gitlab.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio
https://github.com/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio/releases/tag/1.0.0
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@kazani
[Beta] Linux Mint 22.3 Zena to be released soon
Linux Mint 22.3 will be called Zena. The first beta release of the update will be released soon.
Clement Lefebvre, of the Linux Mint developer team, wrote that Mint 22.3 will come with more improvements such as pausing file operations (e.g. copy, move) in the distro's default file manager, Nemo. Snapshots in the Timeshift app will also be pausable. The Warpinator app, which is used for sending and receiving files, will gain an option for text messages.
https://www.ghacks.net/2025/12/03/linux-mint-22-3-zena-to-be-released-soon/
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@kazani
Collabora Launches Desktop Office Suite for Linux
https://itsfoss.com/news/collabora-launches-desktop-office-suite/
https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-office/
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