I’m a software developer with plenty of linux experience but I just want a distro that just works without me having to troubleshoot everything all the time. I am lazy and I just want something easy and reliable. I don’t want an update to break it. But I want the ability to customise it if I want to and the ability to install pretty much everything available easily.

Basically I want MacOS, but as Linux. I’m very hopeful that there’s something I have overlooked!

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Check out the Xfce edition of either EndeavourOS (Arch based) or Mint (Ubuntu based). They’re both easy to set up.

      • Zachariah@lemmy.world
        2·
        26 days ago

        What about it does not fit the OP’s described requirements?

        Edit: Or are you saying it’s not easy to set up?

        • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          26 days ago

          Not the person you asked but something arch based is probably not a good fit for this. Its important to be prepared to maintain your system and manually intervene in package upgrades with something like arch.

          You may not always need to, and I’m sure many folks never run into an issue, but arch is kinda fundamentally built to be used and maintained in a way that isn’t really compatible with what op is saying they want