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    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    In hopes of this question not being a practical joke πŸ˜…:

    The desktop environment makes more of a difference than the distro. Switching distros will also give you a different desktop environment (because not much else uses the Cinnamon desktop environment that Mint uses), but yeah, you'll probably care the most about the desktop environment.

    So, instead of choosing between distros, I would recommend choosing a desktop environment, for example look at KDE Plasma and GNOME Shell.

    And then you can either:

    1. install it on Linux Mint in addition to Cinnamon. You will be able to switch between them from the login screen.
    2. Or you can pick a distro that offers your chosen desktop environment out of the box and switch to that distro.

    I will say that option 2 is kind of 'cleaner'. It will be better tested and integrated, if it's officially supported by the given distro + you start from a clean slate where Cinnamon isn't also installed.
    But yeah, I would actually recommend starting with option 1. You won't have to learn both a new desktop environment and distro at the same time. And it's less big of a step in that you can easily switch back, if desired.

    As per usual, do make a backup whichever option you go with. Sometimes, it can cause problems to have two desktop environments installed, because they might edit the same config files, so it's good to be able to revert...

    [–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    Thanks, it was only a partial joke. I discovered years ago that the best support comes from meme communities. Whatever the issue is, make a meme or wait for a relevant one.

    I'm having a lot of stability issues on Mint and Cinnamon lately and if I have to make a clean reinstall why not try something very different. I'd just like to reduce the distro hopping period as much as possible.

    [–] LucidNightmare@anarchist.nexus 1 points 7 hours ago

    I switched from openSUSE to Fedora because SUSE was a little too bleeding edge for me.

    If you're coming from Debian, Fedora will be right in the middle of bleeding edge and Debian stable.

    I think. :-P