Hi!

I’m a long time Mac user, but I want to set up a laptop or mini desktop (something not too old but powerful enough for image editing, really just for photography workflow), and try a Linux distro with FOSS tools for this purpose. I’m done with Adobe.

I’d like to scale one day to having a NAS of some kind.

I’ve experimented with Ubuntu before but it felt a little noddy, I just didn’t like it. Any recommendations? I’d like something with a decent community that would tolerate my noob questions.

Many thanks.

  • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Second Linux Mint. I’ve tried a bunch of distros and DE for about a decade, and have always returned to Linux Mint. It’s intuitive, the installer is easy, and the OS just works.

    • foofiepie@feddit.ukOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ve heard about Mint and it seems to have a good rep. My tech lead at work recommends it. I’ll look into all of these.

      Dummy question but, I assume the commands/syntax across Mac terminal and whatever the bash/shell equivalent are similar/same?

      • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know anything about Mac, but hopefully someone else can provide a helpful response.

      • BURN@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Fairly close. Basic operation will still be the same, there may be specific commands that don’t work, but in most places they’re called out