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I'm moving away from Windows and I'm looking for distro for coding and occasional gaming. If more context is needed please let me know.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).

I'm an Ubuntu user, which is built off of Debian, but as most others have said Snaps can be annoying. It also typically uses more resources than Debian (depends if you use the base version or some derivative). My next install will be LMDE (or some other Debian distro) because I prefer starting a little more barebones then getting things just how I like it. Ubuntu is more like Windows where things are nice and convenient OOTB but it's more of a pain to dial it back. With Debian you'll need a little extra work to get proprietary drivers installed but it's nothing that has been done by thousands of others.

If you don't really want to tinker with the OS and focus more on games and coding (non-OS) then Ubuntu is a safe bet.