Third thread in /t/ asking about this

>>1677 sorryyyy, I am a bit newer. I'll look at those threads

I've made the switch to Mint. Figuring mostly everything out okay. It's definitely worth it to avoid microsoft

Sanae the mlemer here, there are many technical reasons to choose one distro over the other, but when you are starting out these are not really relevant to you until you start getting nagged by them. Linux Mint is a good choice to get started, it's what I started with as well. While there are many technical differences between distros, some are not real. For example you don't need to pick a specific distro for gaming because all of them can game, it's more of a matter of wanting to pick a gaming distro for having gaming packages installed out of the box. How a system looks like is also entirely up to you and not the system, with the exception of very few systems like Linux Mint where it only officially supports 3 desktop environments

Do not install anything like ubuntu, debian, fedora, or linux mint or similar sort. These are n00b distros. Install gentoo and be elite like the rest of us.

>>1690 What if my processor is too weak to compile everything

>>1691 You can use binary packages for heavy stuff.

>>1692 What if I'm retarded?

ghostbsd

>>1676 Depends on how good you are with computers already and how much you want to learn. If you just want to use it casually and avoid most of the learning (which I dont think you should do but your call) then go with something like Mint, if you do want to learn about it then either go EndeavourOS if you want an easy start or Arch if you also want to learn how to manually install linux. Gentoo is great but I think it could be a bit overwhelming if you are used to just clicking .exe files. After a lot of Gentoo I switched to NixOS because I have many computers and Im lazy.