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.
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.
I’ve been using Xubuntu LTS on my work laptop some 10 years now. All the customization I do is remove snaps and add flatpaks. It just works.
I have RHEL and derivatives on my work machines, where I spend most of my day. I don’t like the RPM package system, which they tried to improve upon several times already. I don’t like Gnome, is too opinionated for me.
I had a colleague who used Gentoo, to claim superiority. His laptop spent most of the day burning kilowatts with the fans blowing. Not for me. Having everyone build packages from source is very unneficient. "Oh, but the security of building your own binaries! " Well, did you look at the code you’re building? No? Well then.
I end up always going back to the DEB ecosystem, with a XFCE desktop. Lately I’ve been using Manjaro with XFCE and Flatpaks, no AUR.
XFCE with Wayland is really needed. LXQt is really close btw, you can already use it
https://github.com/stefonarch/LXQt-Wayland-files
I can imagine how that setup is really stable though, and yeah GNOME is annoying. But XFCE is really far behind from many modern Desktops. I want to do a minimal KDE setup, without most of the bloat. Its not really possible, but Plasma 6 will be fancy and solid, modern and Plasma doesnt really need more resources than XFCE nowadays. If you disable baloo, maybe remove kdeconnect, maybe replace Dolphin with pcmanfm-qt (which is nice but inferior too) it is really snappy and light.