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What Linux Distro would you recommend for general users?
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Lots of great recommendations here. You can't really go wrong with any of them.
But since you mentioned forward thinking (and to some degree gaming friendly), I wouldn't really recommend Mint. It's rock solid but that implies that it's slow moving and not very forward thinking.
Bazzite seems to be a good gaming choice. But sometimes, (rarely) these newfangled immutable distros can be a bit hard to get help for.
So I would recommend going with Fedora.
ETA: What hardware are you planning to run this distro on?
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Back in my day when you wanted quick answers all you had to do was confidently post the wrong answer on linuxquestions.org
Fair enough, I don't use discord so I didn't know that.
PS: I do wish that they would have an open platform for support. Sadly, a lot of these gaming communities seem to be congregating over there, so yeah
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An old thinkpad with Intel and Nvidia, and I would like to stick with a distro in the future once that laptop dies off.
You don't have too new hardware so Mint (with its older kernels) wouldn't be a problem. But yeah, sticking with Fedora (or Bazzite) seems like a better option for you