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I tried Mint this weekend. Steam was broken out of the box, when it works flawlessly on Ubuntu and Manjaro on the same hardware.
Went with LMDE7 for my first full daily driver install, real happy so far :)
For me, it's been Manjaro for ten years, but I'm eyeing atomic distros more and more, like Bazzite.
I'm really enjoying Bazzite for gaming and uCore for servers. It's reassuring knowing that I can just rebase and revert to a known good state with working drivers easily. Highly recommend a try
I use Debian as my daily driver for at least a decade, but I still recommend Mint because it has all the good things about Debian with extra.
Debian developers just push out kernel updates without warning you about any possible system incompatibilities, so for example if you have an Nvidia GPU you might get a notificaton to "update" and a normie will likely press it only for the PC to boot to a black screen because Debian pushed out a kernel update that breaks compatibility with Nvidia drivers and does nothing to warn the user about it, and then a normie probably won't know how to get out of the black screen to the TTY and roll back the update.
I remember this happening before and I had to go to the reddit for /r/Debian and respond to all the people freaking out explaining to them how to fix their system and rollback the update.
Operating systems like Ubuntu, Mint, PopOS, etc, will do more testing with their kernel before rolling it out to users. They also tend to have more up-to-date kernels. I had Debian on everything but my gaming PC that I had built recently because Debian 12 used such an old kernel that it wouldn't support my motherboard hardware. This was a kernel-level issue and couldn't be fixed just by installing a new driver. Normies are not going to want to compile their own kernel for their daily driver, and neither do I who has a lot of experience with Linux.
I ended up just using Mint until Debian 13 released on that PC because my only option would be to switch to the unstable or testing branch, or compile my own kernel, which neither I cared to do on a PC I just wanted to work and play Horizon or whatever on.
Mint forever, Ubuntu without the snaps, and It generally is fuss free.
Shout-out to antiX though, revived many a "useless" old laptop with that.
EndeavourOS is all i need and will ever need.
I mean, depends on your style. I've been running endeavouros (Arch spin) on my desktop for two years now and it's finally felt like home. Though I did my first mint install in maybe 5 years just last week on my media player box in the living room (Cinnamon version) and I've gotta say, it really does feel like "ubuntu, absent all the bloat". Runs really great on a 15-year old dell optiplex with almost zero bullshit beyond having to install vlc-plugin-base.
Desktop? Debian with GNOME. Laptop? Debian with GNOME. Tablet? Debian with GNOME. Server? Believe it or not, Debian without GNOME.
Okay, I'll bite:
Why GNOME? I personally find it very limiting, especially when attempting a Vanilla GNOME config.
A lot of people seem to feel like this. It's obviously a valid viewpoint. Gnome certainly has some flaws.I think KDE has better technical foundations and is probably much more appealing to Windows refugees.
And it's always fun to customise a window manager setup. I usually have another setup or two for playing around. Currently niri as I got bored with regular tilers.
I always find it a little surprising how much some people dislike gnome. We are all on holiday here and the whole family got up early today and logged into gnome sessions and started recording and editing videos,.composing music and gaming. They don't tell me their desktop sucks like people do online.
Out of curiosity, what music software are you using on Linux? I haven't found a DAW I've liked.
We are just getting into this. One kid has been heavily using lmms the last couple of months. It is very limited but perfect for him composiing game music.
Other family just do basic editing with ardour. We want to level up a bit. Just bought a reaper licence and have been playing with it and a midi controller and some plugins.
Bitwig also looks very nice and seems easy to use.
We are newbs with this stuff. Normally I like to only use free and open source only but both reaper and bitwig feel like pretty good value.
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After testing LM with Cinnamon, and a ubuntu based distribution with KDE… KDE is just better.
this. im so sick of everyone just telling new people to get mint. cinnamon isnt the best choice for every new person. i hate that its just told to every new person, point blank.
For me it's been Arch for the last several years. It's the only distro that can deal with the weird things I do while still working well for daily use.
I prefer Kali because dragons are freakin awesome.
Have you tried Garuda Linux yet? Another dragon themed distro with tons of dragon themes.
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