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I personally started with Arch because it looked cool and was minimal. Now I run Gentoo because it's more flexible. OP you should not listen to the faggots saying that Arch is bad to start with. Installing and using it will give you good fundamental knowledge about how different parts of OS interact with each other. Most GNU/Linux distributions aren't that different from each other anyway.

my adovice is search ur laptop's specs.
if its a 2012esque+ laptop look up or find out if it uses UEFI bios.

look up "how to install Arch 2016 (insert UEFI if you are on uefi)" on google

important thing is look for ones that make use of Grub bootloader.

ez you just installed arch. if you cant get an internet connection while installing just execute "dhcpcd" since some routers or NICs are lazy

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i preferred arch because i get bleeding edge version of software builds and also get the latest linux features. if you want to learn linux + gnu command line arch is the way to go next to gentoo (too bad my machine is slow so gentoo's build from source code would take alot of my time)

i think codegorilla's new caching system sucks and posts are delayed by 1. anyway you might want to start first with ubuntu just in case you dont know about unix file systems

Arch is best distro but not for someone who isn't familiar with linux, unless you have a lot of time on your hands / willing to learn.

Ubuntu or a variant like Kubuntu (KDE) or Mint

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you should get the offical version of windows because it is more secrue

Use Manjaro, it's basically Arch made easy. If you can install Windows or Ubuntu or Mint then you can install Manjaro.