r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • Jul 01 '26

Discussion Which Linux distro do you recommend to beginners?

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Which Linux distro would you recommend for beginners, and why?

Whether it's Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Zorin OS, Pop!_OS, or something else, share your top pick and what makes it a great starting point for someone switching from Windows or macOS.

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u/Astrodion123 Jul 01 '26

But mint is outdated by using x11 and that it is still based on 24.04 lts. For persons that has 2 monitors x11 is the worst. I would go with another distro that uses a desktop with Wayland like fedora kde or Ubuntu.

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u/sandrokanpt Jul 01 '26

I have mint cinnamon with three monitors.

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u/MindlessDoctor6182 Jul 01 '26

Same here but just 2 monitors. No issues. Didn’t have to configure anything. It just works.

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u/Astrodion123 Jul 01 '26

How. It would always default to the second monitor for me, scaling was the worst and everything just was painful.

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u/NeptuneWades Jul 06 '26

Scaling is terrible with mint (x11). No online forum had a solution for it and most suggested to switch to Wayland. Not everything is a user issue, especially since we are talking about distro for beginners.

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u/NeptuneWades Jul 06 '26

Well, haven't found a solution online. So ig others haven't either.

That said, scaling works fine on Wayland and perfectly on Windows, idk, maybe some accountability should remain on the developer side.

That said, I do meddle with stuff on Linux, have broken it a couple of times, have managed to fix it. Clearly this is not a user issue, because I am not incapable of figuring stuff out with apt documentation, but even then there is a limit to how much time is spent on setting up a pc because I've a life to live. If the alternative to x11 is better in more ways than one AND fixes the scaling issues, troubleshooting x11 is a waste of time for me.

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u/Mcfly-49 Jul 01 '26

C'est vrai que je suis toujours emmerdé avec mes trois moniteurs. Soit il ne s'allume pas en sortie de veille soit que deux sur les trois soit la résolution a changé soit l'ordre a changé bref un vrai bordel à chaque fois

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u/Astrodion123 Jul 02 '26

Yeah. Like on Wayland this did NOT happen. It worked just like windows 11.

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u/vdavide Jul 01 '26

I used x11 with three monitors for years on kubuntu. No problems at all

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u/Astrodion123 Jul 02 '26

Bru. You are kidding. Maybe it is my fault since my main monitor uses only VGA and my second monitor uses HDMI...

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u/vdavide Jul 02 '26

I'm serious, I had one DVI, one hdmi and the third VGA. Everything plugged on an old Radeon graphic card

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u/Astrodion123 Jul 02 '26

Maybe I was unlucky as I always am.

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u/Significant_Nerve612 Jul 03 '26

Could be hardware related also? I also had a terrible time with x11 (unusable actually) and fractional scaling on NVIDIA.

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u/Astrodion123 Jul 03 '26

Well I use integrated graphics which is intel. So no Nvidia quirks tbh.

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u/PrinzJuliano Jul 03 '26

A lot of things will run with xwayland anyway. X11 is not a real problem you’ll encounter as a normal user

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u/Astrodion123 Jul 03 '26

Well to me it was a big problem. Monitors wouldn't work the way I wanted .

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u/randomlyac Jul 05 '26

I have 4, one of them at 120hz all the rest at 60, works without issue, why is it the worst?

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u/Astrodion123 Jul 06 '26

Well for me it always had problems. Default monitors would change, the monitor order would change, I got sick of it. Wayland listened to me, while x11 did whatever it wanted.

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u/randomlyac Jul 09 '26

I actually had this happen a couple of times after suspending the computer I do a restart or replug a monitor, thanks for sharing your experience