First version of linux

So I want my next pc to be a linux based one, since windows is no more spyware then a operating system. So I was thinking my next Pc should a Linux one, I could have window run as a back up when I need it. But right now I want to know from linux user which I good one to start with. I heard mint and ubuntu are good ones for a first time linux user that need it to be easy to use.

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Personally, I use Debian, because it's the kind of system you set up once, and then can be fairly certain that it'll just work for at least a good 2 years before having to upgrade to a new release (with only security updates in the meantime, which are pretty light). CentOS is in a similar way, but with even less frequent releases, though the security updates seem to be bigger. (These two are preferable for people who want to get things done and need a computer they can rely on).

Ubuntu has a lot of articles and tutorials written for it, as well as a lot of "third party support", but a lot of more experienced users frown upon it since things like getting random binaries from random websites is actually seen as quite a threat in the UNIX world (for example, give a random application root access; it can now copy itself, change ownership to root, apply setuid/setgid permissions onto itself (so it can change its user and group permissions - this is the same mechanism used by the fabled "su" and "sudo" commands), and now, you pretty much have what could be seen as a virus, with unlimited power over your computer, even if you run it as a regular user). Plus, in many ways, the distro is just weird.

Mint, I've herad some positive things about it, but probably the most negative thing about it for me is that you supposedly have to reinstall it each time you want to upgrade to a new release, which is a major pain; with Debian and Ubuntu, you can just upgrade your system to the next release.

One distro that might be worth checking out (I don't have much experience with, but I heard a lot of good things about it, and it should supposedly be beginner friendly) is Fedora.

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