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What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"? (feddit.uk)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (14 children)

As someone who hates Windows with a passion, once everyone recommend Linux Mint, I knew I had to try it.

I immediately had negative first impressions. I simply don't wanna use something with a desktop environment that reminds me of something that I hate. I get that it makes transitioning a lot easier for many, but for me it simply looks too similar to Windows.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm sure you know it by now, but Mint is the "I Can't Believe It's Not Windows!" distro very much on purpose, haha.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    Swapping out KDE/Plasma for Gnome or anything else is dead simple most of the time. The DE isn't locked to the distro, you can have multiple DEs and windowing systems (X and Wayland) installed at once. You can select them from your login manager.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    I wish I knew about this sooner.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Heh, no problem, never too late to learn. If you're coming from Windows or OS X it's easy to think that the WM/DE is tied to the OS but due to the way Linux is written, the entire GUI stack is separate from the base system. You can have both the old school X Windowing system and the new Wayland installed at the same time, along with many different Desktop Environments and Window Managers. I use SDDM as my login manager and in the upper left-hand corner there is a drop-down to choose the DE and Windowing System.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    That really is a lot to learn and get used to.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    No one ever said learning something completely new was gonna be quick and easy. Take it piece by piece and follow tutorials. Installing Arch Linux will give you a good idea how everything fits together instead of just "click, click, click, reboot" and it's installed. You don't learn anything that way.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Heh, no problem, never too late to learn. If you're coming from Windows or OS X it's easy to think that the WM/DE is tied to the OS but due to the way Linux is written, the entire GUI stack is separate from the base system. I use SDDM as my login manager and in the upper left-hand corner there is a drop-down to choose the DE and Windowing System.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Didn't you already reply with a comment similar to this?

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