I installed a Linux distro on a spare SSD that I had this week, to once more try out doing more development in it and daily drive it for a bit.
I went for Linux Mint because it has the convenience of Ubuntu (and Debian), though doesn't make me use snaps, in addition to their Cinnamon desktop just being all around a comfortable choice.
So far, all of the tooling just works, the desktop experience (even including audio) seems bug free, though I've had issues in the past with my netbook instead of the desktop. Regardless, it uses less RAM than Windows, feels more snappy and for development, I'm very happy with it. All of my IDEs and toolchains work, productivity and content creation software doesn't have issues either.
Even things like gaming seem more and more viable thanks to Steam and Proton, although it's not quite where Windows is now and won't be there for a while.
Either way, I'm pretty glad with how the OS and its distros/desktop environments are progressing.
With Windows 11 looming on the horizon as an inevitability, maybe I'll just need to rip the band-aid off and jump to Linux as my daily driver, since my containers and servers both use it already.
KDE has a pretty good reputation from what I've heard, though honestly my previous choice was XFCE because it runs on pretty much everything (my old 4 GB netbook included).
I went for Linux Mint because it has the convenience of Ubuntu (and Debian), though doesn't make me use snaps, in addition to their Cinnamon desktop just being all around a comfortable choice.
So far, all of the tooling just works, the desktop experience (even including audio) seems bug free, though I've had issues in the past with my netbook instead of the desktop. Regardless, it uses less RAM than Windows, feels more snappy and for development, I'm very happy with it. All of my IDEs and toolchains work, productivity and content creation software doesn't have issues either.
Even things like gaming seem more and more viable thanks to Steam and Proton, although it's not quite where Windows is now and won't be there for a while.
Either way, I'm pretty glad with how the OS and its distros/desktop environments are progressing.