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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Blogpost: Actually Good Distro Recomendations for Beginners (reggie.re)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I grew tired of shitty "Top 10 Linux distros in ${CURRENT_YEAR}" articles so I wrote a blogpost, that I would personally consider helpful when I was starting out, so I can simply link it to people when they ask my opinion on a beginner distro.

Objective criticism is welcome and encouraged.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love Fedora but since they are no longer shipping the most popular media codecs on install I can't recommend them for beginners. I myself was a bit blindsided by this when wanted to start watching a movie with family and had to scramble to download the codecs 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Afaik no distros ship those codecs by default now, they might prompt you to download them during the installation. Fedora was just the first to notice that "oopsie we are violating a license" and others followed soon after.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, that's interesting. I haven't had that problem yet on other distros but now I'll keep my eye out for it. Pretty annoying if that's case tho :/