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I found this site a while back - basically it will ask you a bunch of questions on your usage of your PC, and will came out with a list of recommended distros, and a list of reasons why YOU could like or not like it.

https://distrochooser.de/

There are some similar sites to this one, but since I'm not familiar with them, I won't post them. They are simply DuckDuckGo-able though.

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I took the test and it told me I should use Zorin. I've never even heard of that distro

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

It's a fairly popular noob distro, it's stylized to be very similar to Windows, to help people transition to Linux more easily.

[–] Gush@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey me too, even tho for the past few weeks i've been using Arch with no issues, i just suck at ricing and i alway end up imploding the os