I'd say Fedora KDE. It just works, the docs are good, it has a big community and large enough repos.
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If you used manjaro before, then I will recommend endeavour. It is arch Linux (same as manjaro) with an installer. I found their support forums to be helpful as an arch user.
Switched from manjaro to endeavor. wholeheartedly recommend. Easy enough but still has arch experience. Yay is super easy and have only had a minor issue with 1 game specifically on an nvidia card.
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Another vote for Endeavour OS here
I've been very happy on Fedora. It's been reliable and has up to date software and kernels.
Well if you don’t want plain arch I’d go with cachyos or just endeavouros
+1 for Cachy, its Arch with cheat codes for speed.
EndeavorOS. It's like manjaro but not bad.
Came here to say the same. Such a great distro, and it'll be an easy switch from manjaro.
I've been running it with btrfs and it has been rock solid stability wise. If you go btrfs I recommend grub btrfs for easy boot time snapshots and btrfs-assistant in the aur if you want a GUI to manage btrfs maintenance.
If you're already used to Arch-based systems, and enjoy the convenience of the AUR, what about EndeavourOS?
It's basically Arch with GUI install scripts, and a different wallpaper.
I saw one commenter suggested Arch itself. IMO it's even a better idea than EOS.
archinstall doesn't have GUI, but it has very nice TUI (like what you have when you use htop), and you could finish selecting the options in very few minutes.
Maybe I'm a dumbass and it's my fault, but I find that archinstall always has an issue when you run it. It's easier to install arch manually than run the and troubleshoot.
Fedora
I switched to EOS Endeavour OS. I don't think it has data collection
It doesn't, and offers an even friendlier experience than Manjaro IMO
Endeavour has been an amazing distro for me, noob Linuxer. I started on Ubuntu Cinnamon, then tried Mint, and ended here on Endeavour and I love it.
Use Arch Linux. There's a script called "archinstall" you can use after connecting to the internet, and it's basically a guided installer
Fedora/Nobara.
nobara
I think you are looking for a distribution with KDE and flatpak by default
Take the plunge into the Void.
Let go your earthly tether Enter the Void empty, and become wind
Is there any distro that automatically collect data? Every distro I've tried asked directly on install or at first boot
I really like Pop!_OS, AFAIK it doesn't have any telemetry. It's basically a Ubuntu fork but without the stupid Ubuntu stuff, and they're currently even working on their own Desktop Environment.
openSUSE Tumbleweed has served me well for some time now. Maybe give it a look-see?
Second this. Tumbleweed is a great distro. Nearly everything you'll need can be found in default repos. Then there are several endorsed (semi) official add-on repos, and if that fails there's always OBS (opi is your friend for searching those).
This coverage provides an example of what is sent, and it includes neither MACs nor HDD serial numbers.
Garuda. It's even easier than Manjaro. The theming can be a bit much, though.
cachyos is user friendly and based on arch
It's not very stable though. It failed majorly in my case.
I agree. Whenever I use Arch or Arch-based distros they are always very unstable. That is fine if you like a learning curve, but if you don't (like OP) then they probably aren't for you.
I wasn't talking about Arch based. I was talking about Cachy specifically. It's even more unstable. Good Arch based distros can be decent if you don't mind occasional troubleshooting. Also Arch is more stable than Windows.
That's very true. However even still I don't think beginners should use distros which are unstable until they learn Linux a bit more.
I think maybe Fedora but probably less software available
Flatpak exists and even if you don't use them its repos are huge.
Not at all with RPMFusion.
Go to the source. Debian.
Source is LFS.
Trisquel is a fully 'Free as in freedom' distro.
Zero telemetry now or in the future.
Ubuntu based, so large FLOSS package repository.
Mate UI, simple user friendly layout.
* You will need hardware that works with fully free hardware drivers (for printer, WiFi, GPU etc). Drivers with binary-blobs are not included, due to potential security risks or spyware.
Test your hardware with a bootable USB.
Debian or Linux Mint
Arch would actually stand a chance.