I took a bunch of stuff from work that was gonna get recycled including a decent laptop and a flash drive. I work in network admin and IT if that narrows it down. Never used Linux before though.
Edit: Thanks everyone! I'm down for some problem solving so I think I'm gonna go the Arch/Manjaro direction so I can learn my way around Linux generally.
Debian.
It’s incredibly stable, has a broad userbase, everything works and it’s using the most standard libraries and tools across all the distros.
You’re coming from a networking and administration background so it’s not like anything is gonna be too weird for you to figure out.
There’s even a good chance you use a Debian machine for something already.
The new kde is very nice but just do yourself a favor and start with xfce4.
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Oh lol I didn’t see any of the old dragon days stuff, it ran fine I just like xfce more.