Okay this "which distro should I use" shit is just getting out of control.
Which one is best for Android development? Are you kidding me? Just pick any one you like.
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I'm looking for a distro with good cd support, what should I use?
"I'm switching from Windows and want a good distro I can watch Mr. Beast videos on."
One that ships with bash, zsh, sh and/or fish
Woah woah woah, slow down. I just want cd, I dont think I need to bash any fishes.
You could use the android studio flatpak, install flatseal to ensure the app doesn't have permissions you don't want.
Debian-based distros are usually the ones with the most official support and documentation with regard to Android.
Anything that can run android studio basically. And Debian can.
Debian is the best for your needs, because that's what Google uses internally too (they used to use ubuntu, but a few years ago they moved to a slightly modified version of Debian-Testing). All its engineers are using Debian-Testing at their desktops, so it's the best tested and tried distro for Android. Although all other distros are also expected to work fine.
Run. Run now.
Second the Flatpak, but stuff like installing APKs over USB might not work. Dont know if that is really needed.
You can make adb work on Fedora, I documented 2 ways (with or without installing RPMs) here
I used garuda for a while when doing Android stuff and was really surprised that a lot of things like adb, fastboot and all the filetransfer stuff was working out of the box without even having to setup any android sdk, drivers, … . Not really a distrohopper however, so I can’t tell you if this is a common feature on other distros.
Had no problem with Linux mint 21.x.