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.
Arch / Manjaro are good distros if you want to get into fucking around (and incidentally, finding out). All Red Hat-derived distros (i.e. Fedora) as well as Debian-derived distros (i.e. Mint, Ubuntu) separate development packages from runtime packages. Gentoo, Arch (and Manjaro, as an Arch dirivitive) combine them. For people who don't care about tinkering, this only results in additional bloat on the hard drive. But for people who do care about tinkering, this means that everything comes with batteries included. Of course, you can still do all this stuff on Fedora/Debian, but when you already have things like Portage / AUR set up on your system, you get a fully functional build toolchain out of the box. Makes grabbing things from Github and trying them out a lot easier.
I've never used Manjaro personally though. Just Arch. My understanding is that Manjaro is significantly easier to set up.
Manjaro isn't just Arch, it's significantly changed and has become pretty approachable, while Ubuntu has become quite a bit less so in recent years.
Ubuntu always sucked, but that's just my opinion. Literally just, what if we took Debian and made it shittier?
I'm just mad they killed unity :rage-cry: I was using that
unity was great. in some ways gnome3 still hasn't caught up to some of the nice parts of unity
They took away my global menus :bawllin-sad:
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I tried it, it runs really well actually, except for the constant crashes. Real bummer. A taste of ambrosia.
Unity was the worst part! :garf-troll: