I shared a version of this guide earlier this year, but felt a website was needed to unpack the different options fully. So after an unreasonable number of hours, I put together the necessary data and website.

I hope this is digestible enough for the average person to help those looking to take that first step, or for people who are equally passionate and want to get their friends or family involved.

Details:

Site - https://purchasewithpurpose.eu/
Code - https://codeberg.org/purchase-with-purpose/pwp-website
Community - https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose

Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!

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[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have very little experience with the other sections, but I have some comments on the operating system secrion.

I would highly recommend staying away from Ubuntu, they are making quite a few questionable decisions when it comes to developing the Linux ecosystem which do not lend well to their continued openness and favorability.

I also couldn't help but notice that all the distros that are represented are Debian based, I would probably throw in fedora Linux for begginer friendly and bazzite for the gaming crowd although I do believe a decent amount of the maintainers are american. I also found it interesting that there was no section for moderately technical people, in which case the arch distros should be included, ie endeavoros and cachy os.

[–] FallenWalnut@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! I was least confident about the OS section and will definitely rework it. I'll post some ideas on https://lemmy.world/c/PurchaseWithPurpose when I've done an update to that section. Will definitely take the above into account.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I would second the bazzite OS over pop. I have used both (and still do) but bazzite is much more stable an imaged based system. I have had multiple updates go wrong in the past with popos over the last 5 years. Pop is also not recieving the attention it used to because the system76 team is focused on making a new desktop environment (DE) for PopOS (which is awesome but) that is taking some time and considerable resources away from the OS. Even when the new DE does get merged into to the OS I would imagine it would still have some issues to iron out. Where bazite is good now and its about as uncomplicated as it gets with linux. I would even go as far as saying I have more success running games under bazzite than PopOS in its current state.

[–] unknown@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Update: sooo system76 cosmic desktop environment reached 1.0 and existing PopOS installs can now update to it.... I have used it for a bit now and it's clean, fast and just does what's needed. Its awesome. The underlying OS could do with some more love but its a good package atm, you could absolutely do worse.