Linux is the family, you're just meeting different people at the different spots of the buffet
I switched from Pop_OS! to KDE Neon because I wanted to try out the latest Plasma features. I was tired of GNOME's bloat and needing an extension/Tweaks for basic functionality.
Then KDE broke screen sharing, bricked my install once by breaking LUKS disk encryption, and then it booted to a black screen on updating to the latest LTS.......
So now I'm on Mint and all of my servers are on Debian because I want something that just works. Lol. No more distro hopping.
How did KDE break your LUKS..? I find that hard to imagine
Also KDE Neon is a test distro (they don't call it that from what I remember) for those who want to try out newest KDE lol
No idea. It could no longer unlock the LUKS encryption after rebooting from an upgrade. I had to work and just nuked it and started fresh. It happened on both my laptop and desktop after updating, so seems like a bad update.
im a mint user too and every few months i start distrohopping but always land back in mint. all other distros always have something that doesn't work or is just irritating. but mint feels like home.
If Mint ever supported KDE plasma 6.2 I'd consider switching back to Mint. I just can't stand how Cinnamon doesn't give a crap about multi display users and gives them a "There. Good enough. Fuck you." solution.
i read that mint used to have a kde option too but they discontinued that to reduce workload. didn't know multi monitor setups were a problem for cinnamon though. does it work at all or lacks controls or something? are xfce and mate equally bad?
It's good enough to work, but that's pretty much all you'll get. In many aspects each monitor isn't treated separately by the DE. For example you only have one task bar and each screen gets an exact copy of it. Any minimized window will appear on all the task bars on all your screens no matter what screen that window was from. Right there it's a big turnoff for me. I don't remember the details but just getting a different desktop background for each screen needed a workaround solution as well. They clearly didn't allocate any resources for the multiple display user experience. And now that I've gotten a taste of the insane customizability of KDE Plasma I don't think I'll be able to go back. 6.2 added a layer of polish to the experience that made it perfect for my uses. Which is a shame because Mint was pretty solid otherwise.
I haven't tried xfce and mate on a multi display setup so I don't know. But these seemed to be simpler, being made to be lightweight for less powerful setups so I wouldn't expect them to be as advanced as Plasma for that.
I use Debian as the daily and Mint on my server haha
That’s… something.
That's about once every 10 days. Are you okay, op?
Sticking to Endavour OS I think, but I said the same thing about Archlinux and Mint and Neon and Debian so who knows!
Ah those days when I was all fired up and re-installed Linux at the drop of a CD-R.
This is my distrohopping log for anyone interested
Linux Mint 20.1 Xfce
February 21, 2021
Zorin OS 16 Beta
April 21, 2021
KDE neon
May 12, 2021
Solus 4.3 Budgie
August 13, 2021
Debian 11+ KDE
August 18, 2021
Started Gentoo Experimentation
April 27, 2024
I'm still using Debian (now Debian 12) with the exception of Gentoo on my desktop PC that I rarely use
Me:
Mint -> was too outdated
Majaro -> died
Manjaro again -> died again
OpenSuse TW
Arch (new machine)
EndeavourOS (had to reinstall after HW change and was too lazy for Arch again 😂)
No Arch? Strange...
Anyone got advice for a Linux distro that will run good with 2 in 1 laptop (the touchscreen tablet ones) I tried an os and the keyboard was meh. Or alternatively, how I can set up an is to work best on a laptop of that kind.
I run EndeavourOS on a Lenovo Yoga and it works great for the most part. Only thing really missing for me is programming thr buttons on the stylus, but it's too minor of an inconvenience to deal with IMO. Keyboard, track pad, and touch screen all work as intended.
I have Linux mint on my 2 in 1 laptop with touch screen, it’s been good.
I literally was up until 5a this morning helping a friend try to search and distrohop because Mint, Ubuntu, and Fedora all had issues with returning to desktop mode after being put in tablet/slate mode. Keyboard and touchpad just never reenabled. It goes into tablet mode just fine, but refuses to come out. Tons of threads about disabling the keyboard and touchpad because they don't disable for users, almost none for enabling when put back into laptop form.
It's their first experience with Linux and I'm super frustrated.
same here!
X380 Yoga with Mint works like a charm
I don't know which distro is best, but you might want GNOME desktop for tablet. Its desktop control is ideally suited for touch and gesture methods on a tablet
Gnome devs are UX design geniuses. They made a desktop environment that is highly suitable for both touch and desktop usage (Windows wasn't successful with that goal). It's also beginner-friendly without being cartoonish like Windows XP.
I first realized this when I tilted my HP laptop sideways to read something on the back and the GNOME DE flipped 90 degrees to match the new up orientation. flip it other side it redid orientation, tilt thev whole laptop back resets to normal Horizontal layout. Amazing planning.
I mean, Windows does that. The Windows that came installed on the Lenovo Flex I got has really good adaptive UI. If it's in tablet mode, the UI smoothly adjusts to be touch friendly and flipping works in any direction. That's why I'm trying to find Linux that can be this good.
I've been using Pop Os on my Thinkpad X1 Yoga 3rd for about 2 month now. It's great but i have touchscreen problem with touchscreen not working after i left the laptop to sleep/standby
Personally i am using pop os with Wayland enabled on my surface pro 3
I can't wait to get my new laptop in November. I'm going to make my old one a Linux-only machine for all non-gaming purposes, and 100% going back to Mint.
You can get a cheap Chromebook too, I got one in front of me! 140€, corebooted with MrChromebox coreboot, runs LUKS encrypted Fedora Kinoite just fine!
Battery lasts 8h, but that thing has no storage and a pretty damn slow CPU
Thanks for the tip.
Real
Been using arch with DWM for a decade, why would I want to try anything else?
Hint: :q!
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