Ignore everyone here saying fix Ubuntu and try Fedora Kinode (or Silverblue). Bazzite is probably great too if you are gaming but I haven’t tried it.

I finally tried Fedora Kinode after years of Ubuntu (and related distros) and I genuinely wish I had tried it sooner. Everything just works. I cannot reccomend it enough. It’s what I always wanted Linux to be.

I’ve actually tried Zorin and was really impressed! My favorite use of GNOME I’ve seen for sure. Though it’s technically Ubuntu based (which is Debian based).

Agreed on all counts! I really can’t express enough how impressed I am.

requires a fair bit of post-installation configuration

This is crazy to me because of all the distros I’ve tested over the years Fedora Kinote is by FAR the one I’ve had to do the least amount of tweaking with. It’s almost boring how “just works” it is. It’s honestly changed my perspective of what a distro can be.

It works with Fedora, Windows and Macintosh. It worked with Ubuntu until a month ago. It doesn’t work with a fresh install of Ubuntu with default settings.

There, now you have all the same information I have.

It worked perfectly with Ubuntu until recently. It worked perfectly with Windows and Macintosh. It worked perfectly with Fedora.

It didn’t work with a fresh install of Ubuntu and several other distros in the same family.

Now I know what you’re about to say- you’re about to say it could have worked if I had only X Y or Z. But that’s not my point.

My point is that newbies don’t want to troubleshoot everything.

I have not but it was actually on my list of distros to try if Fedora didn’t work out. I should give it a look.

idk I have only needed the terminal once, with Ubuntu/Gnome it was a daily occurrence.

It’s not a RAM problem lmao it rarely crashed on Windows and it’s not crashed with Fedora either.