Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill Date: 28 Jun 2025 05:37:14 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <103i58h$3340l$1@dont-email.me> <2mup5kl8acedvf1pa75f0sqdarcput8s14@4ax.com> <103jouf$3hfel$1@dont-email.me> <103kh39$3n15l$1@dont-email.me> <103l6oh$3ir2e$5@dont-email.me> <72et5k59m8qagfl720d0rmkcamr7q6eqq4@4ax.com> <103mvdl$btla$1@dont-email.me> <103ncdq$eufm$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net mxx9U1g8vroUWhCgapiUlwTyADUuJ5ynU+0AisSTY+MZNcocHn Cancel-Lock: sha1:P7fD4J+q0QJ23gdrY62DkojXf8A= sha256:lJTZOhz2RGa+k4xboeT8YqFqKlX4g1AtsF1NJYuVp9s= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:19:01 -0500, Hank Rogers wrote: > And how many distros are there? Is there a good method to navigate all > these distros? Maybe something like a distro explorer, or distro > browser? https://distrowatch.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions There probably are some badly broken distros but I've never hit one. The wiki page outlines the genealogies. A lot depends on the desktop environment you prefer but that doesn't narrow it down much. If you like KDE, you could use the Fedora KDE version, OpenSUSE, Kubuntu, KDE Neon or Manjaro KDE but each of those is based on a different parent distro except Kubuntu and KDE Neon which derive from Ubuntu ( which derives from Debian). How cutting edge do you want to be? Bleeding, a little more stable, or stick in the mud? Do you want pentest tools neatly packaged like Kali? I realize choice can be daunting for a Windows user and discussions between Linux users often focus on minutiae.