PSA: When people ask you "What distro should I use?", try pointing them here

JokaJukka@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 390 points – Distrochooser
distrochooser.de

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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While I appreciate this, there were far too many questions, which were pretty technical for a layperson. And even after picking the most basic options, I was still presented with like six variants of Ubuntu, including Mint and Elementary.

How about something like:

  • Do you use your computer more for games, or for work?
  • How much do you care about open source?
  • Do you know what a makefile is?