I want to expand my skills as a programmer in the direction of cross-platform. I want to study the creation of applications on Linux, the use of Linux WinApi, but I do not know which distribution is best to choose. Tell us what distribution to choose? I was advised to mint, but I would like to hear other people.

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    Linux WinApi is cool ... - Harry
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    `Linux WinApi` is an oxymoron. I advise you to start by reading textbooks on operating systems. Read the book Andrei Stolyarov. They are completely free. Not the best tutorial, but will give a vector, where to dig further. - Alex Sazonov
  • Yeah, I did not think that this oxymoron would be incomprehensible to anyone. But still, I would like to read a book, and in parallel to write programs under the line. - Sergey Patience
  • We go to distrovotch , choose among the popular, set, add the necessary packages (cmake, ..., python). In general, many are made based on either Debian or RedHat (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Centos). Or BSD, but this is no longer GNU Linux. I'm for debian. - Total Pusher
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    Yes, garbage. Any Dist. Take testing or pre-release version. Firewood is all there, just need to dump any firmware. - eri

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I recommend Debian 10 Buster. At the moment, almost stable and supports modern iron. In the distribution modern versions of compilers and python.

Not Ubunthoids because you are doing an update, not a business.

Choose Mainstream Gnome 3 or Plasma. The first is good for applications on python and bare C, the second for c ++ (qt) and more cross-platform as a whole.