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[–] 68 points 2 years ago

Linux is the family, you're just meeting different people at the different spots of the buffet

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

    I switched from Pop_OS! to KDE Neon because I wanted to try out the latest Plasma features. I was tired of GNOME's bloat and needing an extension/Tweaks for basic functionality.

    Then KDE broke screen sharing, bricked my install once by breaking LUKS disk encryption, and then it booted to a black screen on updating to the latest LTS.......

    So now I'm on Mint and all of my servers are on Debian because I want something that just works. Lol. No more distro hopping.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    How did KDE break your LUKS..? I find that hard to imagine

    Also KDE Neon is a test distro (they don't call it that from what I remember) for those who want to try out newest KDE lol

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    im a mint user too and every few months i start distrohopping but always land back in mint. all other distros always have something that doesn't work or is just irritating. but mint feels like home.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    If Mint ever supported KDE plasma 6.2 I'd consider switching back to Mint. I just can't stand how Cinnamon doesn't give a crap about multi display users and gives them a "There. Good enough. Fuck you." solution.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    i read that mint used to have a kde option too but they discontinued that to reduce workload. didn't know multi monitor setups were a problem for cinnamon though. does it work at all or lacks controls or something? are xfce and mate equally bad?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    It's good enough to work, but that's pretty much all you'll get. In many aspects each monitor isn't treated separately by the DE. For example you only have one task bar and each screen gets an exact copy of it. Any minimized window will appear on all the task bars on all your screens no matter what screen that window was from. Right there it's a big turnoff for me. I don't remember the details but just getting a different desktop background for each screen needed a workaround solution as well. They clearly didn't allocate any resources for the multiple display user experience. And now that I've gotten a taste of the insane customizability of KDE Plasma I don't think I'll be able to go back. 6.2 added a layer of polish to the experience that made it perfect for my uses. Which is a shame because Mint was pretty solid otherwise.

    I haven't tried xfce and mate on a multi display setup so I don't know. But these seemed to be simpler, being made to be lightweight for less powerful setups so I wouldn't expect them to be as advanced as Plasma for that.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Exactly why I won't be on a distro if it doesn't support kde.

    I've been all over I'm on arch currently for the first time. It was nice using my PC and having to install the thing I wanted.

    It was a good change.

    I came from kde neon because I enjoy apt.. but yay and pacman work currently so I'll stick with it for a bit.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I can't be bothered to learn how to build and maintain a kernel though, hence why I stay away from Arch. My "dummy-friendly" distro of choice for KDE Plasma is OpenSuse Tumbleweed. It has been rock solid for a year now except for that one time a few weeks ago when NVidia dropped the ball and fucked up their driver update. It was fixed a few days later. My only other complaint is that I wish they didn't wait for NVidia to put the new 560 drivers in the production branch to trickle it down to us because for some reason that's what gets supported in tumbleweed. EVERYONE who needs those drivers are impatiently waiting for just that because pre-555 drivers don't play well with Wayland.

    Fedora Plasma Spin is probably another solid choice but for some reason on my computer it just instantly bricked itself upon first update.

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    That's about once every 10 days. Are you okay, op?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    Sticking to Endavour OS I think, but I said the same thing about Archlinux and Mint and Neon and Debian so who knows!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Ah those days when I was all fired up and re-installed Linux at the drop of a CD-R.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    This is my distrohopping log for anyone interested

    Linux Mint 20.1 Xfce 
    February 21, 2021 
    
    Zorin OS 16 Beta
    April 21, 2021 
    
    KDE neon 
    May 12, 2021
    
    Solus 4.3 Budgie
    August 13, 2021
    
    Debian 11+ KDE
    August 18, 2021
    
    Started Gentoo Experimentation
    April 27, 2024
    

    I'm still using Debian (now Debian 12) with the exception of Gentoo on my desktop PC that I rarely use

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    Me:

    Mint -> was too outdated

    Majaro -> died

    Manjaro again -> died again

    OpenSuse TW

    Arch (new machine)

    EndeavourOS (had to reinstall after HW change and was too lazy for Arch again πŸ˜‚)

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Anyone got advice for a Linux distro that will run good with 2 in 1 laptop (the touchscreen tablet ones) I tried an os and the keyboard was meh. Or alternatively, how I can set up an is to work best on a laptop of that kind.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I have Linux mint on my 2 in 1 laptop with touch screen, it’s been good.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    I literally was up until 5a this morning helping a friend try to search and distrohop because Mint, Ubuntu, and Fedora all had issues with returning to desktop mode after being put in tablet/slate mode. Keyboard and touchpad just never reenabled. It goes into tablet mode just fine, but refuses to come out. Tons of threads about disabling the keyboard and touchpad because they don't disable for users, almost none for enabling when put back into laptop form.

    It's their first experience with Linux and I'm super frustrated.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I run EndeavourOS on a Lenovo Yoga and it works great for the most part. Only thing really missing for me is programming thr buttons on the stylus, but it's too minor of an inconvenience to deal with IMO. Keyboard, track pad, and touch screen all work as intended.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know which distro is best, but you might want GNOME desktop for tablet. Its desktop control is ideally suited for touch and gesture methods on a tablet

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can't wait to get my new laptop in November. I'm going to make my old one a Linux-only machine for all non-gaming purposes, and 100% going back to Mint.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago
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    Been using arch with DWM for a decade, why would I want to try anything else?

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