I installed Linux Mint for the first time on my personal Laptop just a few months ago, and it ran so well that I didn’t want to mess with it to try out different distros.

But today, my company’s IT department announced that they have some spare old Laptops to give away (technically because they didn’t meet the specs for Windows 11, didn’t stop the IT department from giving them out with Windows 11 pre installed though)

So now I got a few devices to play around with!! They’re a Precision 7530 and a Latitude 7390 2-in-1!

I already got ZorinOS running on the little guy because apparently Zorin is nice for Touchscreen support. For the big guy I was initially thinking that I could try Bazzite, but the installer was like “Intel UHD Graphics aren’t really recommended” so I might try something else first. Any recommendations? I mainly just want to try as many different flavors of Linux as I can haha

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’ve been Bedrock Linux daily driving since its second alpha release, and, it’s difficult to see its use for a newbie to Linux, since it’s usefulness naturally only seems to become apparent once familiar with at least two different distros. But… perhaps, if one were keen enough to learn, and read carefully… it’s plausible, even if only ever used one distro… even if only still intending to use only one distro (yes, can have multiple strata of the same distro (handy, e.g. for staggered upgrades across major versions, different arrangements and so on).

    … Like I said in my review on distrowatch:

    I used to be a rabid distroholic. Whether you call it distro surfing, or distro hopping, or distro browsing, I did a lot. Filled spools of cd and dvd before usb booting.

    BedrockLinux cured me of my distroholism.

    No longer have to choose which one distro to use and contribute to.

    But that’s probably some time away yet for the OP.