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imo the rumor that mint is the easiest is harmful to the whole ecosystem. it implies there arent countless other easy distros and stifles accurate choices for many new people.
Yeah.
“Just use mint” became a lazy retort to new users seeking help in picking a distro, and those being asked getting tired of it.
Dozens of viable candidate distros, many of which may fit each user better per their unique needs.
my sentiments exactly
After testing LM with Cinnamon, and a ubuntu based distribution with KDE… KDE is just better.
What are some things you preferred in KDE over Cinnamon? I haven’t explored KDE much.
The interface looks more recent. Also I can use Wayland, as X11 can be a pain with scaling or specific setups
Apart from that, there are good default apps (although you can download KDE’s stuff anyways), KDE is pretty transparent as an organization. Things like notifications are more sexy than cinnamon. Built in options like Win+P showing screen display works just like windows
Good animations, a good range of default widgets and taskbar config for my needs (it’s pretty limited imo but it’s enough for me)
Terminal is great but I got some problems like .sh scripts not showing a window but just running in background when double clicked. Apart from that, Kate (default editor), Konsole (terminal) are well built
They also have built in support for Nextcloud sync icons in the file browser, which is nice
I prefer the update manager of Mint but no big deal (can’t update only one package in KDE’s GUI)
Things like managing battery and connecting to Bluetooth devices is beautiful. Everything feels premium, fast, sleek.
Is it KDE Neon? I’ve been curious if it’s any good, haven’t tried. It’s just Ubuntu LTS with Plasma.
It isn’t! I used TuxedoOS.
The main reason was that I have a tuxedo laptop, but they also adopted the same moves as mint: mirrored Ubuntu’s repos for privacy, and disabled snap by default. Also, moved ping/internet connectivity check to their own server.
I do believe the packages are a bit outdated but same problem on Mint
I think KDE Neon is more up to date with the packages but still use the default servers, so Canonical gets some of your pings
Oh cool! I had completely forgotten about the Tuxedo devices. No worries on the slow reply, I’ve got three month old comments in my inbox that I swear I’ll get around to crafting a respectable reply to any day now, I swear 😅
An OS should GTFO and let you get on with the business of doing shit on your computer, Linux Mint does that nicely. 🐧
except it doesn’t. Fixed release model quite easily gets in a way of doing shit. Need to add a PPA into config for each separate package you need the latest release of, or simply because the package itself is absent in the normal repo doesn’t help either. And don’t get me started on troubleshooting after “doing shit”.
Something like fedora does a much better job if you prefer fixed release, but if you like to experiment and “do shit”, arch derivatives like Endeavor or Cachy are just better suited for you. All of the above also have a much nicer documentation than Mint.
For most people, especially those who want to migrate from other OS, micromanaging package versions is not part of doing shit.
