As a semi-experience linux user, I want to completely make the switch from Windows to Linux, but I don't know where distro to choose

Hi, for my entire life essentially I have used windows (I'm not that old tho). Although, for a few months last year, I used Manjaro cause my school gave me a 7-year-old computer and Windows was too heavy. I honestly liked Manjaro a lot, but I don't if it's the best for me.

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Things I just can't stand about Windows:

\- Doesn't work half the time -- as a programmer, I have to constantly mess with stuff, and windows decides to be an asshole about it. I would venture to say that I have spend over 30% of the time on my computer fixing it.

\- Viruses -- I like downloading free stuff and viruses are just a fact of life for this.

\- Slow -- I will have discord, a dozen chrome tabs, and spotify open and it will lag when I switch desktops.

\- Driver Issues -- I have had to deal with more display, network, power, and mouse drivers than I can even recount.

\- Awful with second monitors -- constantly worrying whether it would recognize my monitor every time I plug my laptop into its dock.

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Things I'm also looking for:

\- Python, Java, Javanoscript, and Cuda support

\- Support for running .exe files

\- Simple setup

\- Speed and good memory management

\- It just works

\- Second monitor support

Some additional comments:

Over the past 2 years or so I've become mildly familiar with Ubuntu, Manjaro, and Raspbian so I'm not an absolute noob. I'm an avid Chrome user and I will constantly have at least 25 tabs open across 3 different windows, so I would like to be able to do this without really worrying about lag or OOM stuff (ik chrome uses bricks of ram, that's why I'm mentioning this). In addition to all this, my daily driver is the HP envy x360 15m-dr0012dx (i7-8565U), and recently my battery life has been absolute garbage, like 1.5 hours with medium usage, as opposed to the 8 hour battery life it started with (\~1 year ago). I'm fairly sure the batter is physically in good shape (95% health), at least thats what the windows battery health tool told me. Anyways, I think this is a result of lots of background tasks + potentially a virus. One more thing to note, I want a very user-friendly experience, as in I can access nearly everything from well-designed GUIs. One thing I think windows did really well is the start menu (its slow tho) and its search, they are just so convenient and I would like a Linux distro that has that or something similar (one of the reasons I originally choose Manjaro). As an added note, I would like the ability to play around with it and make it look fancy like the people at r/unixporn but not as hardcore.

Thank you!

TLDR: I'm looking for a solid Linux distro to use instead of Windows


EDIT:

One big thing is I would still like to dual boot it with windows

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Best Programming language for making GUI or desktop application in Linux

I use openSUSE and I'd like to develop some software to use as a desktop software. But, I'm unsure what language or framework to use.

I moved not too long ago to linux and i know that for developing Windows applications you mainly use c++. Can you use c++ to develop GUI desktop apps in Linux??

Any insight or suggestions are welcome.

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Advice wanted: A good, cheap multimedia storage SSD for linux.

Over the past couple of years I've dragged along with a 1TB Samsung 850 Pro SSD as a secondary storage device. I say dragged along because it's quite possible the most buggy POS disk I ever had to contend with, at least on linux. It has this...thing...it does, where if it is engaged in writing for any substantial amount of time it will simply stop in continuous chunks 5% of the time, corrupting whatever file it's currently writing to, making it pretty useless as mass-storage. It intermittently complains about "unavailable DRM-features" in the TTY, and generally slows down system boot and shutdown because something about it needs to time out. Works fine on windows though, and the EVO version supposedly works fine on linux too.

Anyway, it's getting the boot. I've filled up my M.2-slots (1 for system, 1 for steamgames and whatever), and now I'd like some cheap, not necessarily blazing fast, storage for movies, music and what have you (though not spinning disks).

Any good recommendations for what to look at? I'm thinking 1-2TB 2.5" SATAIII SSD's.

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Memory Usage comparison between GNOME & AwesomeWM in Ubuntu TABLE

Ubuntu installed some weeks ago. Only installed apps (from apt) are google-chrome-beta , htop & vscode. I measured memory usage in htop with each apps opened one by one.

Hardware age: 7yrs.

Total memory: 3.74 gigabytes

CPU: Intel i3 G2020@2.90GHz

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|Apps|GNOME (megabytes)|AwesomeWM (megabytes)|
|:-|:-|:-|
|Just after login|732|411|
|LibreOffice Writer|880|570|
|Thunderbird|878|599|
|Firefox|1.04 gigabytes|710|
|Shotwell|790|511|
|2mins after above app closed |720|456|

I do acknowledge the difference between window managers and desktop environment. It just demonstrates that using just a window managers provides a significant advantage over DE on lower hardware. Ofcoure I can lower it down further with Arch or gentoo, but we will see it in the next episode of my GNU/Linux adventure. I don't know KDE compares. Until then, awesome is awesome.

Can't demonstrate using Chrome, as it has some 300 tabs open (724 tabs open in Chrome Canary in mobile - my poor Andoid :-(

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Daemon process in linux, alsa sound port card

Hey all,

I have created an application that contains demodulation and I want to make it as service file. I have created service file also, but demodulation is not working at all. Service file gets hanged.
Please help me out in this.

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What's ya opinion on GNOME 40? Are you all mad of the changes, think gnome team is going in a good direction, or you'll just wait it out?

For me I am really happy for the way gnome has been handling gnome so far. Gnome 40 looks nice and all but what I'm really focus on is will it get the job done for my needs like GNOME 3. But other wise I am really happy with the way the Gnome Team is going but really it'll all depends on the effort.

Sorry for bad English not my native language...

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ytfzf now has image previews! {search, watch, download from } youtube without leaving the terminal, POSIX complaint, noscriptable
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Surfing web inside a terminal, because why not?
https://bhupesh-v.github.io/surfing-web-inside-terminal-using-vim-python/

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TUTORIAL: How to perform DNS lookup in the command-line - Techblog - Hostmoz
https://techblog.hostmoz.net/en/tutorial-how-to-perform-dns-lookup-in-the-command-line/

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I installed debian on an external hard drive today

It's not a post asking for help nor anything, probably more a message to linux noobs ( as me ) who are curious, and who can't make a virtual machine work well ( the cause being a potato pc ). We can install OSes on external hard drives easily enough. I just had an issue with grub install ( had to create a partition manually, and had to choose the right mode - non-dynamic ) but now my debian works - a bit slower than normally cuz it's not a perfect hard drive, plugged in with usb 3, there are better solutions. And you can do that too, you can install many distros on one hard drive and try them all, explore again and again, without risk of ruining anything else. I'm not sure this post will be of any use, but I guess I just love linux

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PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/847412/d7826b1353e33734/

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Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps.
https://twitter.com/ubuntu/status/1367063203600031746

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Do you know any Linux distros reviewers that is inquisitive about distros actually being open source and respectful of unredestributable proprietary programs

Do you know any Linux distros reviewers that is inquisitive about distros being actually open source (public configuration and possibility to build a system image) and respectful of unredestributable proprietary programs (Chrome, Spotify, Oracle Java...), because I don't know any, it is several years that I read news and reviews; these 2 aspects are never present.
I don't know if it is the same for video reviews.

Uploading an ISO on SourceForge/OSDN with GPL license or similar but no public configuration and no possibility to build yourself the system image isn't "making open source"

Also a reminder that Chrome, Spotify, Oracle Java, Visual Studio Code (Microsoft proprietary binary) have unredestributable license unless you have an agreement with them.

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On March 1st 2021, EmmaDE3 1.04 gets even more freedom !
https://emmabuntus.org/on-march-1st-2021-emmade3-1-04-gets-even-more-freedom/

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Never Satisfied?

Anyone ever go through periods of saying "this is amazing" but, then something stupid happens like you pin a new application to your taskbar and all of a sudden the size of the other icons become microscopic? All of a sudden you're asking yourself if you should be switching DEs maybe distros? Gnome shell extension doesn't work? Cinnamon here I come. Cinnamon missing a feature from KDE? KDE here I come, KDE has everything I want but, something stupid annoys me guess I'll try to make xfce pretty etc etc etc. I think I spent an hour trying to make the fonts look good in firefox so I could ditch chrome.

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AMD+Microsoft secured-core server, and what does it mean to opensource?

This joint AMD\+Microsoft announcement means a lot to opensource/security-conscious people: since the closed-source concept of "security by obscurity" doesn't work, and - unlike Intel and other competition - AMD DRTM (Dynamic Root of Trust Measurement) can use a 100% open-source stack: no dependencies on binaries with questionable redistribution license.

There was a rumor at Open Source Firmware Conference 2020 that SMM Supervisor is going to be open-sourced. Thanks to AMD moving the RAM init complexity from BIOS to ASP (aka PSP) firmware: /u/CyReVolt has advanced in oreboot open-source firmware porting to his Ryzen board, and Open Source Firmware Vendors (OSFV) \- like /r/3mdeb \- could deliver the Open Source Firmware to more AMD Ryzen platforms!

All this stuff should give a lot of flexibility and high-end security for OEMs and reduce the dependency on closed source, royalty fee-based models from BIOS vendors of the previous era. Some discussion on Twitter with Microsoft Director of OS Security: https://twitter.com/dwizzzleMSFT/status/1366825073529683969?s=19

EDIT: if you'd like to learn more about AMD DRTM with open-source, TrenchBoot developers are having a nice online conference on March 24th - https://twitter.com/TrenchBoot/status/1367176630326751236?s=19

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Zstandard v1.4.9 released (>2x Faster Long Distance Mode)
https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.4.9

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"Ultimate YouTube-DL Scripts Collection" now on Version 3.1.0!
https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate-YouTube-DL-Scripts-Collection/releases/tag/3.1.0

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Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice
https://gist.github.com/akihikodaki/87df4149e7ca87f18dc56807ec5a1bc5

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X vs Wayland & Compositors

So with traditional X, if I run a window manager like BSPWM, I can add any compositor with any features on top of it, like blur for example. So I usually do this with KDE, and switch the WM to BSPWM.

However, with Wayland, the compositor is integrated, right? Like everything is one complete package? So the problem is, there isn't really a good tiling WM that also provides Picom-level compositing features as well.

Having it split up with X was better, because the compositor interested people can make a compositor, and it can work with anything.

Is there a solution to this problem? Thx

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Expand print view on terminal view (apt list)

I want to see the full apt list. Problem is no terminal viewer i use will show the whole list. About 1/10th of the way back up through the lib section it just stops. I dont want to show less at a time. I want them all right in front of me so i can scroll through them and study whats there. How do i do this?

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