Fedora is a fantastic, all-around Linux distribution, and it's my distro of choice for everything from ancient laptops to my ...

A "live" distro simply runs from some form of removable media — in this case, a USB drive — and Linux is particularly well-suited for live deployment.

This Linux distro for gaming throws away the stock Ubuntu kernel. Instead, it embraces the mainline Linux kernel. But that’s not all. The developers meticulously compile this kernel with low ...

Debian and Rocky Linux both require more than 1GB of RAM at boot, while Puppy Linux is the lightest Linux distro, utilizing just 229MB of RAM. Q4OS follows closely behind with 336MB.

Specific to Linux Mint, the distro often has issues installing programs from personal package archives (PPAs) instead of using a package manager. It doesn't happen every time, but it is a known issue.

Also: The 3 most Windows-like Linux distros you can try because change is hard Live distributions are also a great way to find out if the Linux distro you've chosen works well with your hardware ...

The 8 best Linux gaming distros It’s FOSS also had a helpful roundup of some of the best Linux gaming distros last year. That time has long gone when gaming on Linux was next to impossible.

If there are instructions for how to create a Live USB from within Linux, it's usually only applicable to users already using that distro (i.e. from a Live CD copy).