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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Possibly, I reply to a lot of people and I'm on Mobile most of the time and lose track of what I type.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Looking at my comment history, I noticed that this ended up happening to some of my comments too.