Hello community,

I am tired of windows slowing down my laptop, and I tought I’d give linux a chance. So I learn, that there are many linuxes, and I wonder if it really matters. which one to choose. Can all linux apps be run on all distributions? Is it just a matter of the ‘app store’ supporting them or not?

I am producing media art for theatre plays. So I have to rely on a stable system as well as the following tools:

  • Blender 3d
  • a DAW
  • Design Software (adobe alternatives)
  • Video Editing & compositing
  • Projection mapping (I fear, there is just mapmap under linux)
  • audio cuing (linux show player)
  • maybe also light show programming (artnet / dmx)

The machine would be a Gigabyte Aero 15x with a dedicated nvidia gfx card, and 8 gigs of ram.

What would you recommend me?

  • Presi300@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Fedora or Ubuntu/Ubuntu based both are very beginner friendly and stable, both have wide community support and both have user friendly app centers.

  • danielfgom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    I recommend Linux Mint. It’s based on Ubuntu with all the same benefits but without the drawbacks. Mint is lighter, faster and very stable. Looks visually similar to Windows and is more complete and ready for use than Ubuntu.

    Ubuntu uses the Gnome desktop which is heavy on RAM and needs extensions to be really useful. Mint uses their own Cinnamon desktop and it’s highly optimised, full featured and ready to go.

    It also automatically makes backups of your system incase anything goes wrong.

    Highly recommend.

  • ragica@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Maybe check out Pop! OS

    But, yes, nearly all linux software will run on any distro. And even a fair amount of windows software will run on any of them with WINE (or VirtualBox if desperate). Occasionally commercial software will get packaged in an “installer” format a particular distro doesn’t know how to install. A fairly rare situation, for which there are almost always work-arounds. You can cross that bridge if you ever encounter it.