Distro Recommendation

Soldato
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Then I'd go stock Ubuntu. Loads of help and docs are well stocked. Centos/rhel is usually running very old everything and leads people on desktops to just ruin the stability with 3rd party repos and hacks.
I went Manjaro KDE, worked perfect out the box. Installed the nVidia drivers anyway to get the NVIDIA control panel but otherwise its great.
 
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As a begginer a rolling distro with a package manager based on 'just replace the binaries and gtfo' seems bit risky ;) but hope you find what you want :)

P.s. arch user here...
I have dived in at the deep end!
Was looking at Neon KDE today, I thunk I’ve caught the bug and will be forever changing now!
 
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At work we use RHEL, so thats why I was looking at CentOS. The main reason I am going to switch to Linux is to improve my own skills and get experience with it.

I installed Manjaro this morning and I really like it, nice and clean and I will use it as a base for the time being.

Fedora.

Although they've made a few bizarre design decisions. Like.... getting rid of desktop icons. :confused:

Supposedly it is a Gnome decision and will eventually affect all Gnome based distros.

Also apps don't seem to have a minimize button....

I'm not selling it to you am I. :p

I was a Ubuntu user, but I found 18.04 a bit buggy and I don't like the Ubuntu colour scheme.

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Fedora*

I found the minimize. It's in the right click menu of an open app.
 
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Many Gnome based distro's are missing the minimise button because it's the default for Gnome. To get it back open the Gnome Tweak tool and add it back.
 
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