Kateri Linux distro?

DePalmo je 26. jan 2026 ob 19:20:15 izjavil:

Torej, kljub obširnemu nasvetu v tej temi kateri linux se priporoča, sem se vseeno odločil da ga sprobam, ker mi je takrat Windows 11 spil vse živce. Probal in igral sem se zadnja dva tedna decembra in prvi teden januarja. Probal:
- Mint - ni delala grafična (Legion 5 Pro in nvidia pač ni delala dobro), pa še scaling desktopa je jebalo, brez pa ne gre ker 100% je vse miniaturno, 125% je pa vse štekalo
- Debian - nisem uspel niti inštalirat
- kubuntu - je bil zelo, res zelo blizu da zamenja W11, ampak mu ni uspelo
Naprej nisem probaval, zmanjkalo časa ker se je začela služba. Prvi dan se izgubil čas s self-signed certifikatom, katerega mi itak ni uspelo namestit. Sedaj sem spet na Windows 11. Linux še ni letel iz diska, ampak ga v zadnjih treh tednih nisem niti zalaufal.

Tole sem spisal za reddit za kubuntu, pa seveda ker je veliko napisanega proti linuxu, niso odobrili:

I was a long time user of Windows and with Windows 11, I decided that enough is enough and I wanted to switch to linux. I was thinking of this step for many years, but never really tried it this hard as I did in past three weeks. I did try it about 15 years ago and back then, it was a toy and not a serious for a desktop use. These days I see a considerable improvement, but my initial assessment still stands, unfortunately. And I really tried to like it.

The problem is that I got spoiled with Windows where things simply work and I got used to my workflow. I knew that I won't be able to duplicate the workflow on linux, but I expected it to be somewhat similar. For past three weeks, I am constantly fiddling with settings, reading articles online, trying to set it up for work since I work from home and I am a developer, but today I had enough. Did do my best, but nope, still a toy. I do like it for server, but not for desktop. Maybe for light use I would definitely switch, but for me and my workflow ... going back to Windows.

So, what was the issue that I am again giving up on linux?

- it lags. I have Legion 5 Pro 16IAX10H. You can check the specs, it's not a low end laptop. And with "it lags", I mean exactly that. When I open a random app, it freezes for a second or two, then the app opens. But it's not always, I would say this happens in about 60%. Then the same happens when I close the app. Any app. And then we have "start menu". It feels like it needs to preload things and then it works well, otherwise it opens/scrolls up about 80%, then freezes for a second or two and after that it works well. For some time, then the issue repeats.

- Thunderbird is damn slow. I did read that it could be because I added multiple accounts and it didn't sync yet, but why I never saw this on Windows? In the many years of Thunderbird being out, I would expect that this would be fixed and that it would work flawlessly. On top of that, I spent about two days setting it up to my liking and I'm still not 100% satisfied. I expected I won't be, but there's already too many compromises made.

- adding so-called "digital certificate". In my country, we can access government website, where we can interact with tax authorities (think of IRS) and for the login, we have a state issued certificate (think of SSL). Adding that in Windows is about three clicks, while in linux ... I read many posts and needed about three hours for it to start working.

- adding a self-signed certificate for local web development. Maybe for some this is easy, but I did follow quite a few tutorials, none worked. Did post a question regarding, no answers. Lost entire productive day because of it and I can't work without it. And this is rather easy to do in Windows

- Steam. Few games work, other need special attention with help from various forums and various posts online from other contributors.

- pinning Chrome into taskbar. I use three profiles and this also does not work on linux. Did read a lot of articles and spent about two days on this issue alone since it is important to me, but only then I read that Chrome developers made a recent update that this is no longer supported.

- copy/paste with history. When I press CMD + V, the popup does get shown and when I select an entry, it does not paste it. Sometimes pressing CMD + V again pastes the selected entry and sometimes it does not.

- typing into search or other "input areas". In most cases it works, but in some, it looks like the focus is somewhere else and even clicking with mouse into the input, does not focus it properly. Usually it helps closing the app and reopening it.

- no good media player. On Windows, I really loved PotPlayer, while on linux I read it's best mpv media player. Which is CLI based ... For video playback ... Also tried SMPlayer and few others, all are, to put it mildly, not good. Then I found Rein Player, a port of PotPlayer from Windows and was relieved. I do not want to type into console to watch a movie!

- app repository / store. Really? Snap, flatpak and few others? Does really everyone create it's own distribution service?

I'm sure there are other things, since I didn't note those down, these are from top of my mind.

The only good thing there was for me, was that I work on three external 27 inch screens and only linux supported a single cable connection, while Windows does not. I really loved this one and was one of the main reasons why I tried to stick with kubuntu, but ... I will simply use more cables.

I really like the progress linux made in last 15 years or so, but it still needs time to grow up. I was also thinking if all those "flavors" there are, if linux enthusiasts would simply put their work into two of three, linux would rule the world of desktop PCs. Because this is crazy: https://distrosea.com/ And I'm sure not all are listed here.

I will definitely try linux again, but in a few years.
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Sem še vedno mnenja da če gledaš YT in bereš maile oz. imaš zelo preprosto uporabo računalnika, je linux načeloma dovolj dober. Če igraš igrice, je že vprašljivo. Če imaš Office dokumente, sklepam da si oplel, nisem pa niti probal. Ene tri leta nazaj sem probal vse open source rešitve, nato pa vzel naročnino na Office. Pač ni kompatibilno med sabo.
Za piko na i je pa kolega tudi hotel probat linux in ker sem ga vmes ko sem še bil navdušen nad njim, pohvalil, je probal. ZorinOS, mislim. Mu je zjebalo računalnik tako da mi še vedno ni jasno kaj in kako. Windows so bli tam pa niso bli. Particije so bile tam, pa niso bile. Nato pa še disk. Je bil pa ga ni bilo. Ko je končno z drugim računalnikom sformatiral disk in dal gor W11, se je pa pobralo in delalo. Res nevem kaj je šlo tako hudo narobe. Sem tudi sumil da je odletel disk (sicer hecno naključje da ravno takrat), ampak ... disk sedaj dela v istem laptopu.

Tako da sem mnenja da moraš biti fanatik ali pa imeti veliko časa in volje se ukvarjat z linuxom. In kot sem prebral v tej temi: izbereš namizje, izgled namizja in šele nato distribucijo? Dfuk? Ne! Stvar dela ali ne dela! Zato bo pač Windows, čeprav zelo osovražen sistem, še vedno prevladoval, linux bo pa poganjal serverje. In telefone. Namizni računalnik pa Windowse. Žal.

DePalmo je 26. jan 2026 ob 19:20:15 izjavil:

Torej, kljub obširnemu nasvetu v tej temi kateri linux se priporoča, sem se vseeno odločil da ga sprobam, ker mi je takrat Windows 11 spil vse živce. Probal in igral sem se zadnja dva tedna decembra in prvi teden januarja.

pegasus je 26. jan 2026 ob 22:39:49 izjavil:

Danes je že autoconf & automake zgodovina, maš 15+ build sistemov, ker pač ... mladina ;)
Zato pa toliko časa vlagamo v easybuild, ki nekako abstrakta vse te build čarolije v enoten sistem ...

pegasus je 28. jan 2026 ob 20:36:29 izjavil:

Hehe, takih zapisov bo vedno več: https://www.himthe.dev/blog/microsoft-t...

Trias je 29. jan 2026 ob 22:17:34 izjavil:

A obstaja še kakšna bolj prijazna distribucija kot Mint ?

Grimnir3 je 30. jan 2026 ob 13:28:55 izjavil:

OS naj bo samosvoj in naj gradi na svojih kvalitetah ne da se trudi bit nek poceni klon. mojih 5c.

bm1973 je 30. jan 2026 ob 15:08:15 izjavil:

Pa naj posnemajo Windows, kaj je narobe? Saj je samo GUI...

Zimonem je 31. jan 2026 ob 21:55:47 izjavil:

Če si v fohu ne moreš tega zamenjat kar tako , ker nisi sam.

pegasus je 31. jan 2026 ob 17:29:12 izjavil:

Če hočeš kaj koristnega počet, je najboljši distro NixOS ;)