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A note! the desktop field is completely optional! You can install any other desktop you like, but the listed are the "main" ones, usually recommended by the distro.

Linux Mint

• Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
• Experience: Simple
• Desktop: Cinnamon

Best distro for beginners. has two versions: One based off of ubuntu (default), and another one debian (recommended, LMDE)

https://www.linuxmint.com/

Ubuntu

• Country: Britain 🇬🇧
• Experience: Simple
• Desktop: GNOME

Good distro, but has some controversies. Though it's the most popular beginners distro by far.

https://ubuntu.com/

EndeavourOS

• Country: Netherlands 🇳🇱
• Experience: Intermediate
• Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

My second favorite :) Arch based, easy installer and updater, friendly community and beautiful themes. I recommend this distro if you are into arch based distros without wanting the painful part of it.

https://endeavouros.com/

OpenSUSE

• Country: Germany 🇩🇪
• Experience: Intermediate
• Desktop: KDE

It's mainly built around using the GUI, with tools like yast. Uses KDE.

https://www.opensuse.org/

Manjaro

• Country: Germany 🇩🇪 / Austria 🇦🇹 / France🇫🇷
• Experience: Intermediate
• Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

Added because of popular recommendation. I recommend EndeavourOS more, since manjaro has a... history.

https://manjaro.org/

NixOS

• Country: Netherlands 🇳🇱
• Experience: Advanced
• Desktop: KDE/GNOME

My personal favorite <3 Great for servers. It's not for the faint of heart, though hah. It's an immutable distro, where there is no package manager, or manually modifying config files; your entire system is created with .nix files, not commands. Reproducable.

https://nixos.org/

Arch

• Country: Canada 🇨🇦 (Yes yes, it's not european but how can you not mention arch???)
• Experience: Advanced
• Desktop: None

Most popular distro for dedicated users, and for good reason; bleeding edge, full power over your system. Though you have to manually set up everything, from internet to your deskop environment.

Void

• Country: Spain 🇪🇸
• Experience: Advanced
• Desktop: XFCE

Great distro if you want something like arch, but without systemd or slightly more stable (Also, musl support). Obscure but amazing.

https://voidlinux.org/

Debian [Honorary mention]

• Country: Global 🌍
• Experience: Intermediate
• Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

An honorary mention. Isn't suited for everyone, but is the golden standard for servers, and the grandfather of a huge family tree of distros.

https://www.debian.org/

VanillaOS [Honorary mention]

• Country: Global 🌍️
• Experience: Advanced
• Desktop: GNOME

VanillaOS is a debian-based immutable operating system, which can install packages from any other distro and is very hard to brick.

https://vanillaos.org/

That should cover a lot. Please heed the desktop warning, and please correct me/comment suggestions. This is not perfect, so please do criticize where possible c:

Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/7yc9S

Supports shipping to:

• Netherlands (no shipping required)
• UK (no shipping required)
• Germany
• Austria
• Norway (no shipping required)
• Finland (no shipping required)
• Belgium
• Romania (no shipping required)

Non EU:

• US (hawaii too)
• Australia,
• Puerto rico

Here's their promise to never use forced labour for their cocoa.

There's also the Tony's open chain: a pledge by many companies (not just eu, also us) to use only ethically sourced cocoa. The companies are: here

Pretty nice comm, i used to like it on reddit but kind of unmotivated to revive it lol. Here's the link:

!firefoxcss@lemmy.world (Again, i think this would fit better on programming.dev but oh well.)

If only they were on programming.dev or something (i recommend recreation on this instance, but eh, your choice)

!psx@lemmy.world !ps2@lemmy.world !gamecube@lemmy.world !originalxbox@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39163612

I'm not interested in the original song much, but this is a great and beautiful cover and i wanted to share.

Four months inactive, they made a post asking for new mods but no results.

!truecomics@midwest.social

Feeds are a combination of communities into one, like multireddit or mastodon tags.

Try it out!

I've spent months working on this program. I've long thought that "how fast can you make a FizzBuzz" would be a really interesting question for learning about high-performance programming, and when I subsequently saw this question posted on CGCC, I pretty much had to try.

This is so beautiful 🥹

edit: outjerked yet again https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/269772

That code is now part of this February 2025 DirectX Shader Compiler release as they further build-out the DXIL capabilities. Developers outside of Microsoft previously reverse-engineered the hashing algorithm while now it's officially open-source. This will help in situations like those compiling shaders for DirectX outside of Windows hosts or the selective Linux binaries Microsoft has provided in the past.

Let's goo!!!!!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25931907