[insidious]

Debian works, mostly. The problem is my usb wifi card refuses to connect. It shows the SSIDs, but when I try to connect to one it sits at the state "connecting" forever and wont do anything. It's worth noting that the Acess point has had issues on windows as well.

with what/how are you connecting?

try journalctl -xe and look at the output at that, should give a more detailed report on why it's not working

[Bish0pQ]

Here's some of my personal opinions.

Some distros I've wanted to try/look at, and look okay:
-Elementary OS

I have used Elementary OS before and I must say, it looks pretty good. I wouldn't recommend anyone installing it on their main rig though. It's not fully stable yet
and I encountered some bugs. Also some software didn't work well on it.

On the other hand, EOS is perfectly if you have a really old laptop laying around, it runs quite well on them even with very low system requirements.

@OP I was also thinking of dual-booting my PC with a linux distro. I guess I'll go for debian since I've used that before and it seems highly recommended by most people here.

[Blink]

Straight out, don't use anything Ubuntu based.
Debian is OK. But I've had issues with it.

My personal favorites:
- Arch
- Antergos Core/Base
- OpenSUSE

For WMs/DMs:
- XFCE
- Awesome
- Gnome3
- Cinnamon

Stuff that looks cool:
- Slackware
- LFS (also known as kms :b)
- OpenBSD (BSD, not linux)
- FreeBSD
- OpenIndiana (fork of Solaris)
- Budgie

Wall Of Shame: A.K.A Stuff that I don't like:
- Ubuntu and all derivatives
- KDE
- Gnome-Classic or fallback or whatever, just use XFCE or Mate
- Fedora and all derivatives.
- Mac OSX (duh)
- Windoze (kill me)
- ReactOS (Another windoze???)

Good luck figuring out what you are going to use!

[BORW3]

Straight out, don't use anything Ubuntu based.
Debian is OK. But I've had issues with it.

My personal favorites:
- Arch
- Antergos Core/Base
- OpenSUSE

For WMs/DMs:
- XFCE
- Awesome
- Gnome3
- Cinnamon

Stuff that looks cool:
- Slackware
- LFS (also known as kms :b)
- OpenBSD (BSD, not linux)
- FreeBSD
- OpenIndiana (fork of Solaris)
- Budgie

Wall Of Shame: A.K.A Stuff that I don't like:
- Ubuntu and all derivatives
- KDE
- Gnome-Classic or fallback or whatever, just use XFCE or Mate
- Fedora and all derivatives.
- Mac OSX (duh)
- Windoze (kill me)
- ReactOS (Another windoze???)

Good luck figuring out what you are going to use!

Why do you say Ubuntu based distros are shit?

[Blink]

Straight out, don't use anything Ubuntu based.
Debian is OK. But I've had issues with it.

My personal favorites:
- Arch
   - Antergos Core/Base
- OpenSUSE

For WMs/DMs:
- XFCE
- Awesome
- Gnome3
- Cinnamon

Stuff that looks cool:
- Slackware
- LFS (also known as kms :b)
- OpenBSD (BSD, not linux)
- FreeBSD
- OpenIndiana (fork of Solaris)
- Budgie

Wall Of Shame: A.K.A Stuff that I don't like:
- Ubuntu and all derivatives
- KDE
- Gnome-Classic or fallback or whatever, just use XFCE or Mate
- Fedora and all derivatives.
- Mac OSX (duh)
- Windoze (kill me)
- ReactOS (Another windoze???)

Good luck figuring out what you are going to use!

Why do you say Ubuntu based distros are shit?

Bugs, lots of them. Bloated, many kernel panics, everything breaks after one small change, upgrading to the next version breaks everything (rolling release ftw)...
Don't even get me started, I can go on for a while.

[BORW3]

Hi BORW3,

Why you don't wanna use Debian based distro's?

I would recommended xubuntu, because its stable and most drivers are included.
On me laptop I use it now for circa. tree years and its still stable and fast. I have customize it a little because the Desktop environment I don't like.
I have installed Cinnamon as desktop environment, because it has so many tools and shortcuts.

king regards

DiamondFox

How much RAM and how is your CPU clocked and type of core?
Also, I think Xubuntu is just Ubuntu with XFCE, adding cinnamon is just the same Ubuntu with Cinnamon instead of Unity.

[pvnk]

You? You should use Ubuntu.

[Loki123]

Every single suggestion that plain suggests a distribution is flawed in a very simple way.

Each distribution is different from another. It depends on the user which distribution he should use as there are way too many out there for anyone to have a slightest clue on what you want in your distribution. There is a reason most users go on a so called distro hopping. That is, you go from one distribution to another until you find what fits you.. Took me a several years until I finally settled down and kept using the same operating system. (FreeBSD)

There are way too many questions that you will need to decide on your own. For example of several ones are

1. Source based vs Binary based ?
   
2. Specific DE or a specific WM ?
   
3. Bare Boned maybe ?
   
4. Stable or bleeding edge ?
   
5. What package manager ? (This one keeps me away from several distributions, RPM, DEB, Pacman, Zypper, Portage, and some others)
   
6. What kind of support do you need ? Do you rely on the community and support ?
   
7. Do you need a specific kernel ? (Some use older version that are still supported but don't have the latest features.. Slack is for example using the oldest LTS version of the kernel)
   
8. I can go on for a while here if I had the time..
   

Then you have the issues of each distribution being configured differently by the developers. They package different versions of the same application due to dependency issues they need to resolve or don't update them to maintain stability. You have literally thousands of changes per distribution. Even between the most similar distributions like Manjaro and Arch, Debian and Mint or Mint and Ubuntu. Those changes effect the user in ways they don't even recognize at first glance and we the people who suggest them don't have any problems with which you might. It wouldn't make any sense to list all of those changes between distributions up for you as it would take you shorter time to try them all instead of us writing the differences between distributions that might effect your user experience.

Then there is quite simply the matter of preference. You might really like Ubuntu and if you do, keep using it. I personally hate it and have my personal reasons to do so and will keep doing so but that shouldn't keep you away from using it if it suits you. There are other distributions as well out there that people either don't know about and haven't used. It is very unlikely that you will get a response here from an experienced user telling you straight down what distribution is the best one, because there isn't one and no one here has tried them all. For example of distributions that might suit you but haven't yet been mentioned are Crux, OpenSuSE, Parsix, Alpine, Fedora, Mageia and more.

And yes, I hate this question more than anything that you could possibly imagine.

I wrote this on another forum few hours ago and I would like you all to read it as well.

[AlexaHawk]

You are all wrong and must be really confused.....
No Im just messing around, all valid points here. And Here is what I think:

Which Linux Distribution you should use is subjective and hugely a personal preference.
Linux is not the distribution you install, Linux is the kernel which is somewhat equal in all distributions.

Linux has a large community to help you with the transition. It’s recommended that you begin your explorations by looking for a GNU/Linux distribution that suits your needs. Additionally the Free Software Foundation hosts a list of completely Free distributions.

Debian has a long tradition of software freedom. Contributors have to sign a social contract and adhere to the ethical manifesto. Strict inclusion guidelines make sure that only certified open source software gets packaged in the main repositories.

Gentoo describes itself as a meta-distribution. The source code is compiled to binary applications on the user's machine allowing near-unlimited adaptability and complete retrace-ability of the program logic.

Both Fedora and openSUSE are community editions that serve as the stable basis for enterprise ready GNU/Linux distributions with commercial support. Companies all over the world trust Red Hat Inc. and SUSE Linux GmbH because of their transparency throughout the whole development process.

Parabola GNU/Linux is effectively 99% Arch Linux with a de-blobbed kernel and a meta-package that blocks unfree licenses. Both of these features can be installed under Arch.

Canonical’s Ubuntu is not something that is recommended because it contains Amazon ads and data leaks by default. GNU/Linux distributions based on Ubuntu are also currently not recommended due to several other reasons.

What differs most is the distros packagemanager; yum, apt and pacman, some minor customization to the kernel code
the shit they preload it with ofc and what they think looks best on the GUI.

Do not get stuck with Distro-Jumping. Its a fucking nightmare.
Arch isnt unstable if you know what you are doing, you just have to have a mindset where you actually try to learn what you want to do instead of depending on others for help.
The best experience for me running a vanilla KDE Plasma as GUI were on ARCH.

Now I am running Red-hat Enterprise, preparing for some certificates, military grade stability and the best support ive ever seen. It is also a very good Distro for using it as a hyper-visor if visualization is important for you.
Before that I ran Debian a lot, which is my favorite of all time, the godfather of all distributions.
If you stick with the stable release of Debian you will have a very secure system.

Feel free to contact me for any additional help bud.

[MILLIONSOFDRUIDS]

You should try somethings stable. Others have already mentioned that though. Take a look at Solus.