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New to Linux which OS to use?
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this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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Sorry you had bad luck there.
I guess that's one way to be sure, but to me it seems excessively limiting. I have switched desktops on Debian-based distros, and the only tidying up I remember being needed was removal of the old desktop's packages (to de-clutter my application menus) and a reboot (to launch the new display manager).
My recommendation to a new user would be to try whatever distro/desktop combo is appealing, and if it doesn't work out, either do some troubleshooting or just move on to another one. It might not be a path as well tread as the distro's default, but it might work fine. You'll never know if you don't try.
That's untrue in at least some cases. Of course, different distros have different policies and people maintaining their desktop packages, so YMMV.
Downstream distros are a bit of a special case, as they don't really test these packages so much as inherit them from upstream, so what you're actually getting is ubuntu's and debian's version of GNOME in Mint for example. If you're going to do that, I'd just cut out the middleman and go upstream here as Mint isn't bringing anything of value, worse it's just another vector for untested bugs.