A poll the OP asked me to share, it asks "Which OS is using as your development environment?"
Yea but your the only one I will lower my standards enough to actually be friends with :)
@freemo @tacumi LOL, thank you. 😝
There is hope, I have tried Linux at various times, but am just much more productive on an environment where I have a good collection of tools ready.
It's hard to switch and feel like a newbie, have to look for all the essentials again.
But I have unallocated disk space in various of my laptops for that reason; can be added if desired.
Which version would be good for someone new (not Arch from what I hear. I think my son used it many years ago, and everything had to be compiled from source, that's too radical for me).
Mint?
I think Fedora might work too! It's a bit harder than Mint or Ubuntu, but you get updates much faster!
I agree on the information ascpect. It is much harder to find resources for Fedora than Ubuntu.
You are right that knowledge of Ubuntu transfers to more distros, but I still think if they want rolling-like updates or just want more control, Fedora is better. Besides, knowing Fedora could help a newbie with Red Hat.
They both are kinda the same if a person wants to eventually use suff like Arch or Gentoo or Void.