It's been my experience with almost every single distro I've tried, being bare metal or inside a VM, that most of them do just that; works out of the box. Also, what do you mean exactly by "works out of the box"? Slackware does and just like in Arch you have still to do some post-install tasks but it does work out of the box. I think most do; wifi, video, audio, mouse/touchpad, keyboard, USB ports, audio jacks, sd readers ... all of it works out of the box, no need for go hunting drivers or whatever. You have to ask yourself, what it is exactly you want/expect from a Linux distro, what are your requirements, what are you going to use it for, your hardware and anything else you may consider as a critical point/feature. After answering those questions, I think you might find yourself in a better position to say "hey, this is the one"
Yes, I meant a Linux distro that doesn't need me to get programs working, that don't after install. Where everything works in the webbrowser and I don't have to go codec hunting. Also where the audio player works from the beginning with no the extra tweeking neccassry. The video player sometime doesn't work either and I have to install another one, like VLC. No freezes from the begging, like Ubuntu18.04 started freezing just after install.It's been my experience with almost every single distro I've tried, being bare metal or inside a VM, that most of them do just that; works out of the box. Also, what do you mean exactly by "works out of the box"? Slackware does and just like in Arch you have still to do some post-install tasks but it does work out of the box. I think most do; wifi, video, audio, mouse/touchpad, keyboard, USB ports, audio jacks, sd readers ... all of it works out of the box, no need for go hunting drivers or whatever. You have to ask yourself, what it is exactly you want/expect from a Linux distro, what are your requirements, what are you going to use it for, your hardware and anything else you may consider as a critical point/feature. After answering those questions, I think you might find yourself in a better position to say "hey, this is the one"
A dialogue box usually pops up when I insert a music CD. On Fedora nothing happens and even when I go into Rhythmbox it can't open the CD. Works on Zorin and Solus.
In Zorin everything works from the begging. It's targeted at Windows refugees that no no Linux technical stuff. I was one some years ago.
What's your set up? I mean, hardware. I've found that the best approach seems to be building your own thing up, at least it's worked for me; no unwanted/undesired programs but only those ones I will use, like and need. For instance, I've installed Q4OS plasma version and at the desktop profiler at boot chose the developer/minimal mode, which installed a minimal set of apps; konsole, dolphin, konqueror and kwrite. Then I added my owns
sudo apt-get install vlc clementine chromium claws-mail ark kolourpaint calligra okular gwenview ncdu partitionmanager bleachbit zim kate imagemagick aria2 pcsxrI have and old PC from 2013 with modest AMD A10 and a graphics card of 2 GB. I also have a large collection of CD's that I like ripping to PC, for the convenience.
I had a strange experience with Ubuntu 18.04 this year when it started freezing while doing a update after I installed it. Zorin based on Ubuntu never does that. Not in the past and not with the latest Zorin 15.2. It just seems a tad more slow than Solus and other rolling release distros.Yep I try and stay with Debian base or Debian Ubuntu as I most familiar with both.
Arch is lunch eater and sure takes me a lot of time to get things to work and work right.
Debian and Ubuntu base is just rock solid or has been and is for me and most of the time installs and updates without any issues on my old Frankenstein builds.
I think users screw up distros by trying to add software from outside the repository which isn't proven or tested as the software from the repository of the distro being used.
OH Well that's how ya learn what not to do.
Why do you think you need bleeding edge Linux distro and software I'm curious.
I have post Antergos distress disorder. I enjoyed that one so much and then it came to an end.
Yes you are right, Poorguy. Fedora is a bit of a challenge. I had to enable a third part repo to get a missing codec I needed and after that the video's on sites like CNN and Facebook started working, as well as Rhythmbox music player.
Yes, that's right Tolkem. Zorin 15.2 is just right for me in all regards, but I wanted to have a plan b distro and was getting a bit bored with Zorin because it worked so well. With just one flaw, it allocates just two GB to the swap file, while say Fedora creates 7.9 GB. Great for the occasional gaming.
Yes, Linux MInt is very popular! I have never tried that one myself, but saw it once on the laptop of a PC technician in a computer shop.
Mint is based on Debian/Ubuntu but they also have a LMDE
