Beginner Distro recommendations - eviltoast

Long overdue, I know, but looking to start at least partially migrating and working with Dual boot, coming from Windows 10 (putting off 11 as much as possible)…

I have limited Linux experience, mostly in college several years back.

I work remotely with Windows software development, including Winforms, Asp.net, .net core, etc. Not sure what I need to best work with these, particularly Winforms. That may not even be possible, I know.

Looking for any general guidance/recommendations.

Long term, I’m interested in migrating as much as possible, outside of whatever I have to keep up for work… starting with dual boot options then moving towards linux as a primary driver. I have an old media server (also win10, not win11 compatable) not really doing much but running plex when I need it… would love to also eventually poke around with Home Assistant or similar, maybe some LLM tinkering etc.

If this isn’t a good community for this, I apologize, and please point me to a better one if you know of one.

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    4 months ago

    KDE Neon. It’s modern, uses a mainstream desktop environment, ships with Flatpaks, and uses Wayland by default. It’s also very similar to Windows in its UI.

    It’s very similar to many other distros, unlike Mint or Ubuntu which have highly customized desktops. If you don’t like it, you can easily switch.