When I first began researching Linux, for my needs, I found the number of different Distros to be overwhelming. So I made this flow chart, with the intent to help new users find a starting point for choosing a distribution.

I’m open to critique, as to making this chart as helpful as possible.

EDIT: Chart updated based on suggestions in the comments.

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Lemmy is climbing the ranks! I’m a regular lemmy user and I just found this post through my search engine! It was the second result in duckduckgo when I searched up (chosing a linux distro flow chart) I will admit a very specific search but still pretty cool to find lemmy randomly. Cool flowchart btw!

  • afk_strats@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This is really great. I agree with pretty much everything on there and I figured I might want to try a artist distro at some point.

    I think your legend is supposed to say “with immutability”

    On a more philosophical level… This is great for a certain type of person but I worry about it also being scary for a Linux noob. I know out of my friend group, maybe 25% would appreciate seeing things in this format and thats because those are the engineers in the group.

  • Mugita Sokio@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I use CachyOS myself, and I’m a gamer who doesn’t even do development, though I do music production, and do pretty well there. However, I see a lot of Wayland-default distros, which tells me it’s a Wayland bias. Mint is an exception, since Cinnamon is working on Wayland support, and it was X11 the entire time, though Cinnamon and i3 (my window manager of choice) works on XLibre.

    Edit: After reading the chart, it actually works extremely well, despite me using Linux for about a 4 years (between myself and my producer, Neigsendoig, about 9 years combined experience).