Hello community!

I come to you for advice. Using an m1 macbook air since 2020, I installed popos on my old 2013 macbook pro and I was quite happy with it but… I bought a steamdeck two weeks ago and exploring its desktop mode made me reconsider some choices. Using distros based on different systems, with different commands, desktop environment, etc. gets a little confusing for someone like me, who doesn’t use linux as my main machine. Do you have any advice for me? From what I understand, steamos is debian-based while popos is ubuntu-based: is that the biggest part of how a distribution works, ie commands, etc.? Good ui/ux is important for me so i should maybe use nitrux or deepin, that are debian-based, or is it a bad idea to choose a less common distro for a amateur like me?

Thanks in advance, I’m a bit lost.

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    1 year ago

    Thank you for the suggestions, I’ll besure to look into it. I think I had an intuition but completely underestimated the importance of the community around a specific distro. When you’re not actively using Linux, it’s hard to grasp what criteria should be favored and what significance they will have, not just for anybody but for me.

    So I should try it, and I must say the more I hear about fedora the more interested I am.