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submitted 11 months ago by JokaJukka@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I found this site a while back - basically it will ask you a bunch of questions on your usage of your PC, and will came out with a list of recommended distros, and a list of reasons why YOU could like or not like it.

https://distrochooser.de/

There are some similar sites to this one, but since I'm not familiar with them, I won't post them. They are simply DuckDuckGo-able though.

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[-] TwigV@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

I ran through this survey like questionnaire; deliberately skipping questions that would pigeon-hole me into Arch or some DE based decision (which is meaningless). [FYI I skipped the 'User Experience', 'Distribution: Scope' and 'Software:Updates' questions]

The useless thing ended up suggesting LITERALLY every linux distro. Here's a link the the results for a laugh https://distrochooser.de/en/d5fb48e83643/

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[-] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

If anybody is so clueless about Linux that they need to take a quiz like this, they should probably just use something easy like Mint or Ubuntu.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 4 points 11 months ago

Pretty good, it even has Devuan and Artix.

[-] throwawayish@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

The one thing it does best is offering the capability to share the results so that people can refer/link to it while making an inquiry as such.

[-] Durotar@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I always point users to howtopicklinuxdistro.com - they're always satisfied.

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[-] nydas@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Well at least at the end of the questions the distro I use (Void) was somewhere near the top of the list (4th).

[-] yum13241@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago
[-] jon@lemdro.id 3 points 11 months ago
[-] yum13241@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah I know. EndeavorOS is actually good though.

[-] iortega@lemmy.eus 3 points 11 months ago

I have lately experienced a problem with my family. We have good computers, kind of bad computers and really bad and old computers. I can install a really cool distro on good computers, but not on the bad ones. I need a lighter DE on bad computers and a distro ready for old computers. But my family can't afford to learn how to use the 3 of them. So what is the solution here?

I'm thinking about installing the same distribution on all of them so that they don't have to get used to a new one every time they jump from one to another computer. I think that will be antiX.

[-] stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I always had great luck with Linux mint and LXDE personally.

Did you use the link in this post yet?

[-] Shrexios@mastodon.social 1 points 11 months ago

@stevedidWHAT @iortega Your best bet is to use a distro that allows you to choose everything you install (at least your desktop experiences) so that you can install the lightest DE/WM you can. I would suggest something like CachyOS or Reborn, that have choosers and then choose something like openbox. Archcraft is also quite nice and light. I run it on an old machine and it runs beautifully.

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[-] SIGSEGV@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

If you just want it to work, and you're coming from Windows or Mac, use Ubuntu. It's a nice intro, and the hardware support is excellent.

[-] bruzie@lemmy.nz 1 points 11 months ago

No Linux From Scratch? Absolutely worthless.

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