Topic: What's your favorite Linux distro?

Hey, guys! Since we gamers tend to be geeks as well, I'd like to ask you for a little help. =)

I recently formatted my PC and installed Windows 10 as my main OS - mostly because I love its visuals and it has a better hardware/software support; but i also want to install a Linux distribution since I'm studying Computer Science, it's really good for software development and I kinda like the ideas behind open source community.

Anyway, I tried Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - using Gnome 3 as interface - and as much as I enjoyed Gnome, I hated how big the UI in apps looked - fonts, tabs, menus, everything simply occupies more space on the screen than Windows (I'm comparing the same software on both systems by the way). Chrome looks huge in comparison, so does Eclipse IDE and many others. So I figured I'd give another distro a try.

Do you guys have anything to suggest? Arch Linux looks interesting, but I don't know anyone that uses it...

@Corosanbo Thanks! I'll look into it! =)

ubuntu is one of the more user friendly flavours of linux. did you try gnome-tweak-tool to mess around with the font/UI settings?. i use red hat enterprise linux at the office, whilst i don't recall its gnome having particular large text fonts, red hat is a bit of a pain in the hole to be honest compared with ubuntu.

You can use a neat toolkit called tweak tool to change the look and feel of Ubuntu, and there's lots of skins and other desktops to load up including Mint and cinnamon. You can choose which one to kick into at the login screen. Simply install the desktops and at the login screen click the little icon to bring up the different desktop options.

@leucocyte I tried Ubuntu, but fonts look huge compared to Windows... So weird. And I've checked on quite a few different computers, I have no idea how no one said anything about it yet. Things actually look stretched. Never tried Red Hat; what do you mean by it being painful? Haha

@nathanSF Also tried Mint, and gnome-tweak-tool; in terms of UI, I installed Gnome3 and KDE on Ubuntu, the OS looks awesome, but apps have this weird font and bad proportions on screen compared to how Windows handles it. Now I've got Kubuntu installed alongside Windows 10, KDE is really beautiful, and I managed to change fonts to try to make apps look better, it was an improvement but even if one app looks better, the same font makes a different app look awful...

I guess Linux is really not aimed at users that enjoy great visuals. =/

I recently tried Mint and liked them. Although I never truly liked Linux but those are good for studying at least or giving life to an old netbook. Ubuntu somehow become worse as years pass

That's really strange. I use Gnome and it looks and works beautifully. I wonder if it's the graphics driver you are using.

This link might help.
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/best...

Thanks, everyone! I found out the reason behind the weird visuals, at least in my computer. I'm currently on Kubuntu 17.04 and it was using Nouveau video driver instead of Nvidia's. So, I installed the latest driver for my video card and everything looks fine now.

KDE Plasma looks great, btw. I'll try Elementary OS next, it's often compared to MacOS in terms of visuals. =)

I recently migrated my system over to 16.04 64bit. I use the Gnome desktop. It gives me a blank desktop and a slimline sliding icon tray over on the left.