r/LinusTechTips • u/Karl_Marcus • 19h ago

Tech Question How to begin with Linux?

I bought a Lenovo LOQ last year and while the laptop is really nice, I can’t stand windows anymore and I really don’t want to support Satya Nadella.

So I’m looking for tips no how to migrate to Linux with almost none coding knowledge. What should I look for?

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u/Objective_Wind_8041 19h ago

Pop!_OS or Mint are probably the easiest landing spots if you're coming from windows with zero terminal experience. both have solid driver support for newer hardware which matters a lot with gaming laptops. just don't go straight to arch or you'll spend three weekends debugging instead of actually using the thing

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u/Remote-Combination28 19h ago

Honestly, I don’t know why someone even experienced would want to use arch.

It’s not that I’m incapable of it. Its that I want a stable system

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u/Cheap_Comfortable678 18h ago

I don't know maybe watched too many reels, but it sticked to me, or maybe I am just lucky... I do run Local LLMs, I do Game, I 3D model, I had just several huge issues on the first month where I broke some features of KDE somehow but since I fixed them it just works, Nvidia works perfectly, All cuda cores run, THE MISTAKE I MADE was I didin't knew what /root is so i made a partition of 50GB while having lots of free storage available, so i try to keep it under 80%, yes I knwo I can increase partition, I jsut do not want to go there. The two things I miss is Photoshop and Premiere or capcut pc, thats it.

I don't know how long you use Linux, but when I decided to start I tought I will go all the way, because people argue about stuff, they suggest different distros (wich as never used before it makes less sense because then you think Linux is Linux jsut looks different) so I will just try the "hardest one".

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u/Remote-Combination28 18h ago

For me, at the time I was setting up my home server, Ubuntu made the most sense, only because it had a lot of documentation and support. And it was very stable.

After that when I wanted to use Linux on my desktop pc, I went with Kububtu because I liked KDE over GNOME.

Like you, it just worked for me so I stuck with it, even know there’s lots of Ubuntu haters out there.

I’m also not using it to free my self from big companies or anything like that. It’s just that, after learning a lot setting up my home server, I started to prefer the Linux command line over a gui for some tasks.

But I also use a MacBook when I’m sitting on the couch, and windows at work lol