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One Register to Rule them All: what Stats NZ is planning behind closed doors
Part one of a four part investigation by Bonnie Flaws. Read parts two, three and four. StatsNZ is creating a Persistent Unique IdentIfier (PUI) for each citizen to track them over time in an Integr…OffGuardian
Omega
in reply to NocturnalMorning • • •Just FYI, your question was reposted
lemmy.world/post/31875892
BlameTheAntifa
in reply to NocturnalMorning • • •Desktop environment will be the most impactful for you. I recommend picking a distro with KDE Plasma, which will feel like the best version of Windows you’ve never seen before.
If you are almost exclusively gaming and don’t want to fiddle much, Bazzite.
If you like to fiddle: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or Fedora. If you want more Ubuntu compatibility, Kubuntu.
There are lots of options and it’s hard to go wrong. Bazzite is special in that the system is immutable, so everything needs to be run as a container.
BalakeKarbon
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in reply to NocturnalMorning • • •personally i went with linux mint because it was ubuntu based (and much of my it work was dealing in debian/ubuntu virtual machines).
linux mint is also very user friendly though i haven't tried the debian flavour yet.
YetiMindtrick
in reply to NocturnalMorning • • •SayCyberOnceMore
in reply to NocturnalMorning • • •Man, we need to be able to pin some posts and answer these quesrions once.
I'm not saying there's a single answer (I use Arch btw), but if we could just group all these Q&As in 1 post...
NocturnalMorning
in reply to SayCyberOnceMore • • •SayCyberOnceMore
in reply to NocturnalMorning • • •I think you've read me wrong there.
First up, I presume you searched for other posts like this one? If not, a pinned post might've made that easier for you to get started (ie Mint)
Second, the pinned post doesn't become a final answer, it's a starting point to add to the discussion, (ie you tried Mint, but didn't like X, Y & Z)
From my pov there are a lot of posts asking this same question and this was simply a reflection on how we could improve the community... and your experience.
NocturnalMorning
in reply to SayCyberOnceMore • • •XXIC3CXSTL3Z
in reply to NocturnalMorning • • •If you are familiar with Ubuntu still I recommend you fallback to that or if you hate canonical and telemetry then use mint. Honestly bro it depends on what you wanna use it for.
Generally:
Noobs -> popos, Ubuntu, mint,
Devs -> fedora, Ubuntu (ease of access), debian
Power users -> Arch, Nix, tails, (a bunch of other distros ig since any distro can be used in a powerful way tbh)
Neckbeard -> Gentoo, LFS (not really a distro tho but amazing for learning)
But seriously speaking it's your choice bud. All Linux distros work amazing and are all the same to the kernel. You can always install multiple distros on an ext. SSD if you can't decide.
HaraldvonBlauzahn
in reply to XXIC3CXSTL3Z • • •Debian is not as easy as Ubuntu to set up, but much easier than in the past. And once set up, it's rock solid and has long term security updates, so if one can get a little help with the installation, I'd recommend it even to novice users.
And Arch is fantastic if somebody wants to learn more about Linux, because of its fantastic wiki.
Apocalypteroid
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