But then I'd have to deal with snap.

Ubuntu is just Debian with extra steps.... and snaps

Same but with plain Fedora on each side.

Use whatever the fuck you want, you fucking weirdo cultists.

I consider myself to be 'techie' for lack of a better word. I have custom janky solutions for everything. I have in the past written down a blue screen and troubleshooted it to give the IT team notes... Hell, I used to be the guy IT would call if they received a ticket from my office (anyone in my office) because I could give them more details and such... So, I like computers and shit, right?

And holy fuck I don't get the Linux world. I used Mint back in '13ish and it was fine but in a different place back then. I use Pop_OS! on my laptop and I like it just fine. I use Ubuntu on my secondary computer and I like it just fine. I don't get what I'm supposed to prefer about all these different distros/environments. I can't wrap my head around it. Do y'all change OSes that often? Am I missing out on something? Am I wrong or are y'all the kids who are wrong?

This meme but with Mint Cinnamon IMO.

TL;DR: I'm a true Linux noob, and now love and appreciate Linux thanks to openSUSE Tumbleweed. :)

In all seriousness, as a Linux noob, openSUSE Tumbleweed made me actually start to really enjoy using Linux as my main OS. I've fucked up plenty of times, and at that point I would've had to reinstall most other distros, but Snapper came in and saved the day. I'm sure there are plenty of other distros that do snapshots just as well, but this is coming from someone who last tried running Linux 5-6 years ago, and was still fucking my shit up somehow. I've never had the best of luck with Linux, which is why I always stayed on Windows.

Then came Microsoft's ever increasing enshittification, and I saw openSUSE Tumbleweed on the distrowatch website, downloaded it, and here we are 8 months later, and openSUSE has remained my main OS. I only got a desktop for gaming, and it fit the bill almost perfectly. I had to learn some things, that's for sure, but what got me to stay was the stability! I had never used a Linux distro up until that point that made BTRFS and system snapshots the default. This was crucial for someone like me who only dabbled in Linux because I love the idea behind it, I could just never get too far into using it before fucking my shit up!

There are plenty of options that are similar, or maybe even better than openSUSE, but they won my interest and respect for getting a noob like me to truly envelope themselves into Linux.

I'm still nowhere near anything that might resemble your common Linux user, but damn do I really love my computer again now. It's like when I was kid again, and first started using computers, fascinated by what I could do.

Something running Wayland on plasma for me.

I use big sur btw

I've been using Pop-Os for about 2 years now. It's Ubuntu based and great for gaming.

I find having something based on Ubuntu is really great for anything I would need a tutorial or any kind of support for.

Really excited to see what the Cosmic DE looks like when it goes into live or later betas.

I will never not use the aur, CACHYOS was my first distroand, tried others, I'm good. Missing nothing with flatpaks + aur + debtap, i like max options, install all except snaps, no appeal

Ubuntu was my first foray into Linux via Ubuntu server in school. I didn't care for it and several years later realized it was because I just don't like Gnome.

If we listen to protondb apparently its Tumbleweed

Wouldn't you want something more bleeding edge like Arch? Or at least Fedora, or something like openSUSE Tumbleweed?

(I understand it wouldn't work for the meme, so let's say Fedora.)

Can confirm. I use Vanilla Ubuntu.

Secureblue.

Thing is, I think we're already past that weird transitional period where there exists a good solution for X common problem in linux gaming, but is only shipped in some nieche gaming-oriented distro, instead of any general purpose distros. Most desktop linux distros are already "bloated" (in a sensible way) so it's not like they would lack whatever components we need for gaming. Sure there can be nice extras, but that's mostly only useful for the miniscule cross-section of people who consider themselves powerusers but are afraid of installing programs from the package manager.

If you're a programmer: NixOS.

Define your OS config, which programs to install, and dotfiles in one repo. Install a fresh OS, pull in the repo (nix-shell -p git, because NixOS doesn't come with git >_> ) and run the command to install the whole thing (sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#wodan for me. wodan is just the name of a config - I have multiple all combines into one repo, so I can share configuration between machines).

Took me 17 minutes to set up my laptop exactly the same as my Desktop. Same configuration, applications, and OS settings. It's so fucking nice.

With Windows, that used to take 2 days to download and install everything manually.

Only downside: You'll need to learn Nix-the-language, nix-the-os, and nix-the-terminal-program, which took about a month of deeply digging into the Vimjoyer and LibrePhoenix channels.

Just checked my Mint. Why Cinnamon uses so much VRAM? I have over 1GB idle, without anything running. In my Windows i usually have 400Mb with all things closed.