I didn’t intentionally pick Ubuntu, my pc went shit and I needed to install some os and the only one I had available in a usb was Ubuntu noble.

Laptop specs: I think a 7th gen inter i5, 8 GBs of ram and (the issue) a 125 GB M2.Sata SSD

I’m not really going to play games on it, it’s one of those weird laptops that folds and can use a stylus.

So what would you suggest for something light in size and good with a stylus.

  • MXX53@programming.dev
    22·
    4 days ago

    I would go Debian for stability.

    I like fedora since it updates a little more frequently than Debian, but it isn’t a full on rolling release. I used opensuse tumbleweed for a while and it broke on me several times.

    I also used arch for a while, but I’m a dad to young children and I just don’t have the time to fuck around with my OS anymore. When I have time to work on my personal dev projects, I just want to drop into tmux, launch neovim and go. After some distro hopping I landed on Fedora with KDE for my desktop and gnome on my laptop. I also have an old netbook running antix with iceWM and an old thinkpad running fedora i3. The latter 2 machines are my hard focus machines.

    • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13·
      4 days ago

      Third for fedora. IMO the new “it just works” distro in place of Ubuntu - but a little more current than Debian.

    • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 days ago

      Big 2nd for Fedora. Fedora isn’t Debian stable but isn’t exactly unstable either, and I think having fresher packages in your main repo is worth it.

    • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      3rd for Fedora. Stylus support is great on the latest stable KDE Plasma release. So, I would go for that.