the fat controller from thomas the tank engine?

I’m just going to assume they are referring to earth at this stage

You will have a better time with an all amd system (amd cpu’s are just currently better, and amd gpu’s are more linux friendly)

Every game that I played on windows, I can also play on linux

Build your pc with at least 2 drives, with 1 drive ideally just for the operating system. Not the end of the world if you cannot afford that, but it does make things easier long term, the same applies to windows installs.

Ignore anyone who tells you to use mint as your distro, they are either trolling you, or trolling themselves, it’s trash.

Don’t expect to find the distro that suits you straight away.

Don’t judge all of linux based on the choices you initially make.

Don’t listen to trashtubers like linus

If you are coming from windows, the desktop environment ‘kde plasma’ should be your first choice (as opposed to gnome, xfce, cinnamon etc etc)

I don’t see any of those 3 as good, or even decent choices. I distrohopped initially, and did it again recently out of interest. Most people will just go off of searches, forum posts, and trashtubers though, which may lead them to believe that linux is crap due to ending up with crappy distros, and/or de’s

The variety of options are a pro, and a con, as are of course the opinions

It’s an odd (verbose/rambling) read, there is a lot hidden in the detail behind the plethora of choices

When you are first looking into linux, ubuntu still comes up a lot though, as does mint, and pop.

https://lemmy.zip/post/69739725

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

When getting into linux it was easy to remove ubuntu from the list due to them being like this.

Fedora considering ai earlier this year, and now debian talking about maybe slopping it too, is starting to creep me out even more about the future.

I read 1, 7, and 8, as they appeared to be the options not just saying ‘ai yay’. I stopped reading each of those options when they appeared to turn into contrary bullshit. I very briefly scanned some of the other options.

None of them appeared to prohibit the inclusion of ai. The verbosity comes across as deliberate, rather than informative to me, knowing how much people scan these days.

I have debian installed on my 2 pc’s, but do not actively use it, and this would be my first insight/interaction with the people behind it, and the ‘community’. If this poll is the 1st step in the process, I have to question why the 1st step was not simply ai: yes, or no. With a result of yes = empty partitions where I used to have debian.

Is that a real question, or do you use ai?

They appear deliberately vague and misleading

The 1st round should be yes, or no.

Choice A in the developer poll still allows for ai

"It does not include:

Upstream projects using LLMs for development
AI-related software
Upstream patches/security fixes etc."

The correct link:

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

I thought debian was better than ubuntu, hopefully I was right. I only have it installed as a back-up/look more into later distro, so it is very easily deleted if they wander down the nuclear wasteland path.

Use the filters (including init software) to narrow your options:

https://distrowatch.com/search.php

Watching his content should be enough to inform you of that.

Otherwise it is a very simple search on youtube, there are multiple very well known issues.

Spoon-fed opinions serve little purpose.

A lot of people interested in tech end up watching at least one of his channels due to internet searches confusing ‘best’ with ‘biggest’.

You will make your own mind up one way, or the other.

Linus is a trashtuber.

pcmasterchef

Humans are why we cannot have nice things. The internet was always going to get ridiculous, just like the usa was always going to prove back to the future right in the stupidest possible way.

might be worth looking into

I’m not sure of anything, I would look into it further were I planning on using it, which I might do in the future, Garuda KDE lite looks like a decent distro.

From the little I have looked into it, it is all meant to be checked, adding an extra layer of protection, as long as your trust the people behind it (much like official I guess)

I only use official and flatpak, I wouldn’t even use flatpak if official had more.

Chaotic aur might be worth looking into if aur is what you want. Everything there is theoretically checked.