!rant

Just ordered my new notebook :)

Now I have one week left to decide which distro I should install

I know that there are plenty of linux users here so please: comment your favourite one with some reasons why you like it so much :)

Arch

If you're used to windows, choose mint :).

If you're inexperienced with Linux, I'd suggest Ubuntu just for the sheer amount of tutorials you'll find for any and all questions you may encounter.

There are plenty of awesome Linux distros out there, but after trying a few, I've stuck with Ubuntu because the size of its community solves a lot of headaches fairly easily ; and I feel it's a good compromise with good performance yet modern look and feel.

Arch with KDE is good if you are used to windows.
I personally like Arch with i3 gaps (and xfce as a backup). any setup with arch should do you good; It's a very stable sort of bleeding edge, and the package management is so simple.

@ParkCity
Arch reminds me more of Mac than windows.

Arch with Gnome

It all goes down to how experienced in Linux you are. I personally use Arch, but it's not for unexperienced users. On the other hand, Ubuntu and all the flavors (Kububtu with KDE, Xubuntu with XFCE and some more) are pretty easy to set up and use straight away.

Arch is great, but I am personally getting more and more into NixOS. The declarative installation and configuration style is amazing and the easy rollback feature is great to have.

Ok so right now I am rooting for arch.
I have already been using ubuntu for a while

@Linux as the linux guy here on devRant, what's your opinion for best linux distro for personal use ?

@404response
Best distro for personal use, it depends how you are as a person :P

I would recommend Linux Mint, because it is well made, good drivers and just works.

@Linux what exactly do you mean by: 'how exactly you are as a person'? :D

@404response
I dont know what you prefer :)
"best distro for personal use" is a very hard question to answer for me, because everyone does prefer different stuff.

@Linux ah yeah, Well I will try out a few and fuck everything up a few times

@404response
Save your mind and go for mint :)

Not to be a anti distro fellow but I can't recommend Linux mint
their users cannot quickly lookup whether they are affected by a certain CVE.

Secondly, they are mixing their own binary packages with the binary packages from both Debian and Ubuntu without even rebuilding the latter - let alone performing QA. This creates something the Debian community calls a "FrankenDebian" which results in system updates being unpredicatable. Because of this, the Mint developers simply descided to blacklist many packages from updates by default, and putting their users at risk due to them not receiving potentially critical security updates.

Thirdly, while they import packages from Ubuntu and Debian, they hi-jack package and file names be re-using existing names. For example, they called their fork of gdm2 "mdm" which they say stands for "Mint Display Manager". Issue is, there is already a package called "mdm" in Debian which is "Utilities for single-host parallel shell scripting" or something. Regardless because of this the original "mdm" package is impossible to install.
Another example of such a "hi-jack" are their "X apps" which are their forked desktops apps. For example, their editor (which was forked from MATE's 'pluma') which they called "xedit", ignoring the fact that there is already an "xedit" making the old "xedit" unusable because of this name hi-jacking.

Add to this that they don't give to rats ass about copyright infringment, with their pre-installed Oracle Java and Flash and various patended and copyrighted codecs which are not allowed to be freely distributed in western countries, theirfore putting their users at legal risk.
To conclude, I do not think that the Mint developers deliver professional work. Their distro is nothing more then a crude hacky stuffing together of existing Debian-based distros. They make fundemental shitty descisions and mistakes that put their users at risk, both in terms of their computer, and legally.

Ubuntu 18.04 / .10- give Ubuntu a try, they replaced Unity with GNOME.