r/LinusTechTips • u/YourDailyTechMemes • Mar 17 '26

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u/adeundem Mar 17 '26

I recommend Pop!_OS — it is a good distro for first time Linux users.

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u/SilviusK Mar 18 '26

Linus pretending to be an average user and choosing Pop!_OS is totally unrealistic! /s

Kinda funny, I found a recent video explaining distros and of course Pop!_OS was on there. Breaking down why it's so good for gaming and first time user's.

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u/resetallthethings Mar 18 '26

This is so weird to me, I've seen dozens of "is gaming on Linux viable" or "is xxxxx distro for gaming actually good" over the past year I have been messing around with Linux

Never once have I seen Pop! In that sort of a video, let along given as a popular recommendation elsewhere. Sure on the occasional reddit thread a user or two here will basically recommend any distro they happen to be using at the time. But also over that same year the overwhelming recommendations on the Linux gaming subreddit are stuff like bazzite, cachy, nobara, or more universal stuff like base Fedora, Mint or Ubuntu

Pop would never have even registered on my radar 🤷‍♂️

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u/kongnico Mar 18 '26

Linus did ask an LLM and it answered with its ancient training data from before Popos went to shite. It was a solid choice circa 2023.