{"id":227027,"date":"2026-03-24T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/10-beginner-friendly-linux-distros-that-arent-mint-and-why-you-might-prefer-them\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:50:13","slug":"10-beginner-friendly-linux-distros-that-arent-mint-and-why-you-might-prefer-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/10-beginner-friendly-linux-distros-that-arent-mint-and-why-you-might-prefer-them\/","title":{"rendered":"10 beginner-friendly Linux distros that aren\u2019t Mint (and why you might prefer them)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/user-friendly-linux-distros-that-arent-mint\/\">10 beginner-friendly Linux distros that aren\u2019t Mint (and why you might prefer them)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/user-friendly-linux-distros-that-arent-mint\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/user-friendly-linux-distros-that-arent-mint\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-24 08:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linux Mint has earned a reputation as a Linux distro that&#8217;s easy to get started with, thanks to its &#8220;batteries-included&#8221; setup, including popular media codecs. If you don&#8217;t want Linux Mint, there are plenty of other distros geared toward people new to Linux.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"pop-os\">\n                        Pop!_OS<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"you-don-39-t-need-a-system76-pc-to-run-it\">\n            You don&#8217;t need a System76 PC to run it<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p> Like Mint, Pop!_OS is a variant of Ubuntu. It&#8217;s developed by System76, a company that sells desktop and laptop computers with the system pre-installed. You don&#8217;t have to buy a System76 PC to use it. You can just download it and install it like any other Linux distro.<\/p>\n<p>The desktop is a customized version of GNOME called COSMIC. Pop!_OS is geared toward creative people and developers, but you can use it as an ordinary desktop system. You have a choice of APT or Flatpak packages.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"zorin-os\">\n                        Zorin OS<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"for-those-who-appreciate-clean-design\">\n            For those who appreciate clean design<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        <img width=\"825\" height=\"464\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zorin OS system resource consumption after a fresh boot.\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/zorin-os-system-resource-consumption-after-a-fresh-boot.png?q=70&#038;fit=crop&#038;w=825&#038;dpr=1\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/zorin-os-system-resource-consumption-after-a-fresh-boot.png?q=70&#038;fit=crop&#038;w=825&#038;dpr=1\" class=\"img-brightness-opt-out\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Zorin OS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/user-friendly-linux-distros-that-arent-mint\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 beginner-friendly Linux distros that aren\u2019t Mint (and why you might prefer them) https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/user-friendly-linux-distros-that-arent-mint\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/the-linux-penguin-in-the-middle-of-the-infinity-logo.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,110,79,167],"class_list":["post-227027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint","tag-ubuntu","tag-zorin-os"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227029,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227027\/revisions\/227029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}