[ShadowAce]

[Dalberg-Acton]

I recommend Linux Mint Cinnamon.

[egfowler3]

What about ReactOS as in ReactOS v0.4.13 rel 18? I’ve been thinking of changing...

[Bob434]

when i went distro hopping trying to find ‘the right one’ for me- i tried manjaro- Wow- it was flaky- I ‘broke’ it a lot trying to customize it, not knowing what i was doing-

That was back when i had patience and a mind (somewhat)- now i have neither, so i have settled on, and stick with, linux mint cinnamon- Brain Fog doesn’t jive with more complicated linux distros well unfortunately

[libh8er]

Ubuntu is the best. Great for newbies and advanced users alike.

[markman46]

i settled on PCLinuxOS in 2009 and have been using it ever sense. it just works for me, I have the 32 bit and a 64 bit versions

[Bikkuri]

I had messed with Manjaro... it was crap and unstable;
I finally went back to Kubuntu. It has (very minor) flaws, but is MUCH more stable than Manjaro, and is much better than it used to be.

[Paradox]

I cut my Linux teeth on Gentoo Linux. I was gonna run it on some old hardware, so I Wanted something I could customize and get the best speed from. It was quite an ordeal, but worth is as an education into linux.

[knighthawk]

I started out with RedHat back when most stuff was only done with the terminal. Moved to Suse because of Yast, worked quite well.

Ubuntu is nice but I really like Mint Cinnamon and even my mother used Mint for a while until I got her a Windows 10 box because she even has a hard time working with Windows, Linux was a tad to far but she could browse and do Libreoffice on it. So Mint is a good choice for beginners.

[absalom01]

Moving to Kodachi because Tails is too much of a hassle.

[ex91B10]

Slackware. Hands down.

[martin_fierro]

Early versions of Ubuntu were PAINFUL

e.g., "Can't find your network mouse"

[lefty-lie-spy]

Why not just use MacOS?

[Openurmind]

Tails should not be in this list. It is a single purpose tool/distro that is one of a kind unless you make your own with the same features. If you want security Tails is pretty hard to beat, and it is easy to install and use.

Comes with the TOR browser and all encrypted environment that losses all memory of what you did and it is an isolated system from your machine. It is in a class of it’s own for what it does for you.

It is a very secure browsing tool rather than a desktop environment distro. And it works very well for what it was designed to do.