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New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option

www.howtogeek.com New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option

Find a Linux distro that meets your needs and requirements—that isn't Ubuntu.

Ubuntu's popularity often makes it the default choice for new Linux users. But there are tons of other Linux operating systems that deserve your attention. As such, I've highlighted some Ubuntu alternatives so you can choose based on your needs and requirements—because conformity is boring.

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Ubuntu isn't your only option
Thumbnail shows Pop!_OS which is a fork of Ubuntu.
- For now. They're switching to Debian.
  Edit: I think I was thinking of Linux Mint?
  Edit again: I was wrong twice, it was Vanilla.
  https://linuxiac.com/vanilla-os-announces-major-shift-moving-from-ubuntu-to-debian/
  
  New article: Debian isn’t your only option
  
  Yeah but it's the best one
  
  Step 1: install Debian
  Step 2: install a bunch of packages essentially making it Ubuntu
  
  You are doing it wrong, then.
  
  Step 3: Don’t install Snap & have a better time
  
  Very true. Snaps are the worst. I don't even get why Canonical hasn't decided to just drop them already
  
  Sunk cost fallacy?
  
  Because they want control.
  
  Then they need to make apt not work lol
  
  They don't need to make it impossible to do anything else. They just need to make their shitty proprietary solution the lowest friction.
  
  I was looking for some information on this but couldn’t find anything. Do you have a link or any more info on them moving to a Debian base?
  
  Hm. I don't think I dreamed it, but now all I can find is a Reddit post where mmstick says the next version will be based on Ubuntu 24.04.
  Maybe I was conflating it with Linux Mint.
  I was thinking of Vanilla. Thanks for the callout, I was lined up to be very confused at the next Pop OS release.
  
  Linux Mint already has an alternative Debian edition maintained.
  
  Ah that makes sense. I didn’t know about Vanilla so thanks for updating that.
  I know Pop is updating with their own DE “soon” and thinking they were changing their base as well would have been quite an undertaking
  
  I thought the DE was already out.
  
  They're making their own from scratch because modifying Gnome became too much of a pain. It's got the same name, which is confusing.
  This is probably why I had it in my head that they were doing the Vanilla thing, in that they are both departing from their long-standing fork.
  
  I mean I get that, but I could've sworn cosmic was already out.
  
  Yes, Cosmic, the fork of Gnome, is out. However, Cosmic, the ground-up rewrite, is still in development.
  Cosmic is dead, long live Cosmic.
  
  Ohhhh I see. I had the assumption that the ground-up rewrite was already out. Thanks for saying this.
  
  Cosmic does look really nice.

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