I’m switching from Windows to Linux, for performance, better looks, simplicity and better control over the environment. Which would be the best Linux distribution I should use, that is beginner friendly. Thank you for your help! Matic

Rule 1 of using Julia on Linux (for most distros): Do not install Julia from the package manager but use the generic binaries from the website instead. Apart from that, I would say that Julia is pretty distro-agnostic. My recommendation for a beginner would be Pop!_OS . Have a look at this thread w…

I will weigh in here… I use Fedora on my personal laptop. It depends really what your goals are. I would give two distros some consideration Ubuntu. Always popular with AI types. You should have access to the latest versions of all packages. Your call if you want to go with the very bleeding edg…

[image] johnh: For beginner use look at Mint Linux. I recommend Mint because it is easy and transition from Windows is also easy. It doesn’t give you any work, and the interface is clean, customizable and responsive (much more than Ubuntu’s). Having had to compile kernels 20 years ago, I am n…

Sorry for the corny answer. But the one you are most comfortable in, that one will be the best.

Hi development_mentor! With Pop!_OS you get something that many call a better Ubuntu. With Fedora 34 you get a rolling distro that is usually working and has a good out of memory management and Gnome40 environment (in general a platform somehow similar to Red Hat Linux enterprise standard). With Cr…

Have you made a decision? I forgot to add that Red Hat in its program called Developer Subscription for Individuals has the no-cost offer with entitlement to register 16 physical nodes running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I think that Arch and Gentoo are also worth taking a look especially if you are…

I use Arch and really like it. However, I have started with Ubuntu and this was good because starting with Arch without knowing any Linux basics is kinda hard (even if the Arch Linux Wiki is great). At some point I got tired of Ubuntu, because of how it overwrote some configuration files, and how it…

@Henrique_Becker I was under a great impression of topics raised by development_mentor and I visited also his github page to which he provided the link. I wrote the recommendation for Arch as I was sure that this would not be a problem for him at all. I have never been a heavy Arch user as it lacks …

Which is best linux distribution for Julia

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There is a discussion that touches on this in the early part of this thread. Apparently, for Arch Linuxes, you could use the package manager.

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