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minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months ago repeat the “Don’t sweat it.” Ubuntu is a perfectly fine starting point (the other “beginner distro” that’s commonly recommended is LinuxMint) »AFTER« you become comfortable with what you have: try familiarizing yourself with the command line far more competent than Windows cmd.exe or PowerShell !linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev get overwhelmed with all the distro choices available get bitten by the distro-hopping bug (“Gotta try them all!”) and then try Distrobox (“ALL the distros at once!”) »THEN« take a look at immutable distros “immutable distro” is a catch-all term that embraces several concepts immutable – the root filesystem is set to read-only – makes it harder to mess up your system declarative – your hardware and packages and configs are declared in a master configuration file atomic / transactional – updates are checked as they’re applied, if it fails, it gets rolled back to a previous “safe state” container / sandbox – ex. Flatpak or Docker or OCI – apps are isolated in their own sandbox and not allowed to mess up anything else
cmd.exeor PowerShell