Distro review
Just a short review of linux distros that I’ve used/use
If you are a beginner coming from Windows: use Linux Mint
Ubuntu
I don’t like Ubuntu. It has a bad track record with privacy, which is one of the key reasons I use Linux, and it ships snap by default which no one else does (even distros that are based on Ubuntu)
Linux Mint
If you are coming from windows, use it. Linux Mint comes with a windows-like desktop and almost everything you can do, you can do using a GUI interface, which is good for beginners.
Fedora Workstation
Fedora is a good distro for beginners. It’s easy to set up, use, it is stable and popular, so you a likely to get support. It also comest with a popular desktop (GNOME on Wayland) which most applications are build for.
Arch Linux
I you are a beginner don’t use Arch. It is not meant for beginners. I used this distro for a long time, and it’s good. It has the AUR with all it’s software, and I can set up everything myself (which I like), but now I have a high resolution monitor, along with a fullhd one, so I need wayland to use them at the same time, but when I tried to install it on arch, it just broke, and I have no idea how to fix it, so I decided to try Debian
Debian
Debian is good, stable and easy to use, but it doesn’t have much software (After using Arch with the AUR, every distro for me now has too little software)
Manjaro
Manjaro is good. It is based on Arch (so it has the AUR) and it’s easy to install, I you want as much software as possible, use Manjaro
NixOS
NixOS is a really good choice if you reinastall OSs a lot. For me the problem was, that home-manager made all config files that it controlled read-only, but overall it’s a pretty solid distro with a large repository of software (almost like the AUR)
Gentoo
I didn’t believe anything could be harder to install than Arch. I was wrong. Installing Gentoo was so hard that I gave up, so I can’t say anything about the system itself, but building everything from source seems nice.
Blend OS
The idea is good, but the implemintation is not perfect. I used this distro a long time ago, so probably everything changed, but still, if you want an immutable distro use Fedora Silverblue or Vannila OS (I haven’t used them myself, but I heard good things about them)
Kali Linux
Don’t use Kali Linux as a daily driver. Just. Don’t. Only use Kali for Penetration Testing, Security Research, etc.
Qubes
This OS is built for security. I used it for a while, but the performance drop was too much. But I still have it installed on my PC (just in case)