
I prefer Gnome-shell and Unity so that is what I use. I personally don't like KDE though it would qualify as "stable" along with Unity, Gnome-Shell and XFCE. Don't go with Pantheon, Mate, Cinnamon, Elementary or something else like that. Linuxbrew and other such things will not be worth the problems they bring. Perhaps Snaps can improve this problem, though I'm sceptical. Second, with Ubuntu/Debian, stick with whatever is in the archive or PPA. Fedora is acceptable, particularly of late, but it /still/ is behind Ubuntu. Yes, it has problems too (let's not start the nitpicking thing, I'm making a general statement), but it is by far the best stable linux desktop.

I'm sure people will chime in here with others that they have thoughts on here, though in my experience, Ubuntu is the best at this game and it's not even close. But, if you like the "just work" nature of OSX back in the day, look at Ubuntu proper or Ubuntu-gnome (if you don't like Unity).


For anyone thinking of switching, here are some thoughts.įirst, you'll hear all about arch.
