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What new Linux distribution should I try? (wiki.livingcartoon.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/42673820

Looking for suggestions besides Kubuntu, KDE Neon, Debian, Arch Linux, or Kali.

Would be on a modest Dell Latitude with i5, 14" 1080p display with intel graphics, and maybe 16gb ram. I have previous experience with XFCE, Ratpoison, Openbox, KDE Plasma. Recently started trying out LXQT.

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[–] br3d@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've just switched to Pop_OS and so far I'm really impressed. Very fast, and Cosmic desktop has a totally different design and aesthetic to any other DE

[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago

Added to list

[–] witness_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I recently went back to fedora workstation (gnome) after using Arch (Manjaro) with kde and hyprland for the last 3 years.

Got tired of things breaking with hyprland and Manjaro every other month. Had a few issues with AUR packages too (I know I’m supposed to carefully read release notes to figure out what breaks, but how many people actually do that?)

With fedora at least, I won’t have to worry about packages breaking and not working together. Gnome isn’t my favorite but I’m sticking to it for a while to give it a fair chance.

[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, definitely super interested as someone who has tried neither Fedora, nor Gnome (since version 2).

[–] marcie@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

i noticed you havent tried fedora atomic cosmic. if youre just looking to run the gamut of DEs its probably the best cosmic distro right now. bonus points its fairly easy to rebase between each fedora atomic distro so you can DE hop without too much pain

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[–] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Guix

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm on Zorin, and i love it.

[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cool, how long have you used it?

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 2 points 1 week ago

on and off for a few years. It's decent as fuck. It's very windows like, more so than KDE or cinnamon imho.

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