Migrating to Linux

QTDDTOT, get Debian.
The true Chad OS named after Stacey Deb and Chad Ian, you don't even get sudo as you're expected to run everything in ROOT.
git gud

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Mint

I don't know. I switched to slackware, then devuan breifly, then installed gentoo, riced it out, and haven't looked back. The only real problem with cinnamon back in the day was that it had memory leaks, iirc. It provided a nice windowsy feel and let me change most settings graphically. Now days I use openbox, pypanel, and spacefm. Everything else is done from the command line. I used to use ranger, but I hated that vim style interface, and one day the image hack stopped working and I couldn't fix it. It was kind of a shitty middle ground between a GUI file manager and the command line. Now adays I use spacefm for browsing and light work, and do the heavy shit from the command line.

Mint is adware
Mint injects browser packages with code that restricts users to only using search engines that have sponsored Linux Mint.

Ubuntu is a common suggestion though honestly I find it fucking unusable. Mint or Fedora are both pretty user-friendly. I used to recommend Crunchbang but that no longer exists. Is there a successor to it?

All in all, the distro doesn't really matter that much.

Solus has pretty sane defaults, meaning you won't have to fuck with it very much to get it working. Solus 4 is taking fucking forever to be released though because the main guy left the project.

Didn't he quit his job to work fulltime on Solus?

so far there are 16 replies and you have these suggestions

Prepare for a lot more of that, if you ever get into linux and ask for software recommendations. It's extremely rare for people to recommend the same thing because there's almost always an alternative. Beware not to fall into the trap of trying to pick the absolute best distro. Instead switch your mind from optimal decision making to satisficing, or you'll end up trying a different distro every month.

Install arch
Specifically majaro