The best Linux distro for newbies and average users is EndeavourOS

@flyingcakes I see what you did there! No matter what answers are given, it always points to a certain Linux distro :wink:

@Katie as others have pointed out, I think your experiences with other distros before you tried EndeavourOS gave you more understandings of Linux than I think you may give yourself credit for. Using all those other distros first gave you enough knowledge to be very competent, more so than that of a typical Linux newcomer who wouldn’t possess such knowledge at first.

(note: i’m strictly talking in reference to optimus support in the following below)

I’ve been using Linux for some years, but I always picked a distro that pretty much did everything for me. Once I decided to move from Solus to EndeavourOS, the process was not easy, nor as simple as I was accustomed to (though to be fair that was kind of the point in my desire to learn more), so because I have a hybrid graphics card setup in my laptop, which is less than ideal for most cases, I needed to know exactly what I was doing and what I wanted done.

In the past, graphics-wise, distros held my hand with my graphics setup. PopOS would set it all up for me. In the past, Solus would set it all up for me after running their DoFlicky installer once (it installs nvidia drivers and 32bit libraries for graphics/games). But for EndeavourOS, a lot of manual intervention is required to get properly setup. I have multiple options to choose from, which all require proper understanding, otherwise I’m going to end up booting into a blackscreen which is worst case scenario.

The reason I’m on EndeavourOS now is 1.) the EndeavourOS wiki helped me figure out what Nvidia/Optimus path I wanted to take 2.) this forum and its many users helped me troubleshoot a few issues early on 3.) my desire to run an Arch-based distro was 100% committed to what I wanted 4.) I was willing to spend the time to learn and the patience to grow my understanding of using Linux.

This is all just an example from my own experience and a long way of saying, I didn’t have it easy, but I was committed to making it work. There was some failures along the way, but eventually I got it all working, mostly all thanks to the EndeavourOS devs/contributors putting together a solid wiki here and to a bunch of various users here that have an itch to solve any problem they see :wink:

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