These distros are easy to install, include the right apps, skip the bloat and ads, and automatically detect your hardware. Easy peasy. You're welcome.

Certifications from Red Hat, Oracle and SUSE are tailored to environments where those Linux distributions are prevalent.

Over the decades, I've used or tested just about every Linux distribution available, and this one has stood above all else.

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Over this series test-driving operating systems, we’ve tried to bring you the unusual, the esoteric, or the less mainstream among the world of the desktop OS. It would become very boring ...

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