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Unless you need nvidia drivers from this century

i might try various other distros for my desktop usage. But for my home server it will always be Debian. Rock solid.

I changed one of my PCs over to Debian this month, and I was surprised at how smooth it is. I guess I was expecting it to be way more barebones. I don't know if I need more than this!

For me it’s Mint Debian Edition.

From the bottom of my heart fuck rolling releases. Never worked for me (nobody get worked up please, ymmv).

I've been living with fedora (ultramarine) kde for a while now because people praised fedora so much, but i think mint still wins. and i chose ultramarine because am a noob, don't sue me.

there are many little things that just don't work and i seriously can't figure out. here's a few: discover fails to update the system and i always have to do it manually from the terminal. wine is broken, it literally can't run anything i throw at it that worked on mint. plasma theme customization is somewhat broken (also custom themes prevent updating...). using alt key in games run with wine causes some annoying notification sound (not in system keyboard shortcuts). often keyboard leds stay on when system suspended, system can't be woken up from keyboard. can't use flameshot with kb shortcut.

this isn't a hate comment though, a lot of things are better than i had with mint cinnamon. i do like how it's a lot faster than mint when under heavy load, autosuspend actually works, no issues with screen not waking up. currently my media pc with mint can't update because all sources are unavailable and it has some conflict with python3 which it won't let me uninstall (which i suspect would be unwise, idk)

I tried twice to install it- a ryzen 360 was stopped dead by this bug: https://old.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1pag639/rdseed32_error_and_sddm_fails_to_start/

Figured that out and ran into the touchpad not working after sleep.

A 9300H+1650 never made it past this: https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/the-installation-of-cachyos-always-aborts-due-to-chwd-error/16754/3

0/2, cannot recommend

I’ve had the opposite experience. Mint has just worked on literally every piece of hardware I’ve ever owned.

Is it always a new laptop/computer?

I'd be suspicious of Mint on anything brand new (and hence only recently fixed in a lot of packages).

I've had the exact same experience.

I would even argue as long as someone isn’t messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon

KDE Neon is dead because its developers found out that putting an add-on repository on top of Ubuntu is not reliable at all. That's why KDE Linux is now in development.

You do know that you don't have to change distros to change DE right?

Ah that explains it, I no longer understand a single thing about computers or what people do with them anymore. You've explained it perfectly.

And here's the thing: I don't even want to know. It's not like I'm trying to understand but can't, I just don't care. I don't get it.

People with 100TB home servers, people with 3D printers and boxes filled with trash, endless upgrades for no visible change, etc

I don't have a single need or want that ends with "I need a new computer".

The second sentence was superfluous.

Linux Mint

I'm surprised you didn't stick with NixOS. After spending tens of hours learning how to use it, the sunk cost fallacy is strong.

Unironically my most headache-free Linux experience in 10+ years. The handful of times an update doesn't go through you just need to visit the homepage and follow the manual intervention steps outlined in the announcement.

At least, once I freed myself from Nvidia x)