Hi guys, I have a question if you would be so kind. I’m a professional developer looking to finally make a semi break into Linux.

My daily driver is a Legion 5 / 6800H with 3070ti 32GB and I have been running Linux Mint in a virtual box now for a few weeks.

I can’t make a 100% transition over to Linux due to the nature of my work but I could be running at round 80-90% of my work via a Linux OS.

With the above said, I’m finally going to install a dual boot instance today. Is Mint a good starting point? Anyone else have experience with Mint and Legion or would you recommend I start somewhere else? (I have heared many people mention POP OS).

Essentially I want something I can jump head first into and just make a start familiarising myself.

I’m trying to regain some control over my data and a jump to Lemmy and a Jump away from Windows feels like a solid start !

Thank you and keep rocking…

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    1 year ago

    What you need to ask yourself, is how deep you want to go

    Do you want a DIY distro so that you can fully understand the inner workings of everything? I’d say go with arch

    Do you want something that just works out of the box? Mint is great, so is fedora, and many others

    But I’ve found that nothing beats the comfort of a fully setup arch for me.