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I can't decide on a linux distro because all I've tried are great. Seriously.

I'd call myself a novice-to-intermediate linux user (heavy on the novice part) and since I work as a web developer it's been a great learning experience to use the same OS on my workstation as the webservers my projects run on. (Ie I started out with Ubuntu and a LAMP setup).

The thing is I distrohop ad infinitum... Feels like I've tried out every desktop environment known to mankind (I just can't stop myself when I see a new one or a new take on an old one) and I've dipped my toes in Arch territory to. Loved Antergos when that still was a thing. Found EndeavourOS this weekend, kernel panic ensued. I'm a noob with sudo and that's never a good thing. 😆 (Try out in a virtual machine first you say? Bah. Where's the fun in that?!)

So now I'm on Linux Mint w Cinnamon because why not. (Because it's sluggish and boring, that's why...) I had to just get something up and running quickly so I could get back to work. 😬

But one day in and I'm realising I actually miss GNOME. And Ubuntu feels like home. I would feel much cooler using Arch but honestly I don't think I can be trusted with it. I love tinkering with settings, look and feel and whatnot but I can honestly do that just as well in an Ubuntu/GNOME environment.

Maybe Pop!_OS... could be something for me. 😏

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  • 4
    3y
    Why not all at once, try Bedrock Linux
  • 5
    3y
    @synemeup Now you're just enabling me... 😳
  • 3
    3y
    With Linux Mint you can easily switch desktop (there's KDE flavor, GNOME & Cinnamon)
  • 3
    3y
    @webketje yeah I'm going to go that route I think, focus on getting a setup that's stable and easy to alternate "frontend" rather than wiping the whole thing every time I grow tired of my desktop... lol
  • 4
    3y
    I used to be a distro hopper, but I stopped when I found Manjaro. You mentioned that you liked antergos, and manjaro is the same kind of thing, based on arch but easier to use. I still love trying new distros, but manjaro + plasma is the one I plan on using for a while
  • 4
    3y
    @webketje Mint KDE has been discontinued. You get Cinnamon (best), XFCE (oldschool), and Gnome (as bad example to make the other two look even better).
  • 1
    3y
    @10Dev I must admit it's tempting. Will do something very unlike me and try it out in a virtual env first. ;)
  • 2
    3y
    When you want to get out of your addiction to distrohopping, jump over unto FreeBSD and may the Force be with you.
  • 2
    3y
    I think atleast window manager hopping is something that every linux user has done atleast once. I did my fair share with just a single Ubuntu 16.04 and broke it twice. Things settled once i installed xfce on ubuntu 16.04 and now i am using xubuntu 20.04 and i am loving it.
  • 2
    3y
    I kinda felt that way at first, now I'm settled on pop_OS! and I think I won't be distrohopping soon
  • 2
    3y
    Also used to do it and had quite a good time with Slackware and other early distros. Ended up using Manjaro with i3 wm. Must admit I don't want to use any floating wm anymore. Tiling wm makes my life so easy.
  • 2
    3y
    I too think you will be happiest with manjaro + gnome. I've been an many a distro user myself started out with Gentoo and later arch, than in a laptop installed antergos, awesome stuff. I think manjaro comes really close to that. The latest gnome is really nice (reworked the activities view for the better)
  • 2
    3y
    Manjaro GNOME, it's arch!!
  • 1
    3y
    If they are all great, just use vanilla Ubuntu.
    You get the absolute maximum compatibility possible and as Ubuntu has the most desktop users (so search results likely don't need to be translated to another distribution)...
  • 1
    3y
    Garuda linux?
  • 4
    3y
    Make your own, go Linux From Scratch.
  • 0
    3y
    Linux from scratch do sound intriguing and like a learning opportunity for the ages, but I'm not quite there yet. 😏

    Looking into all your suggestions I must say Manjaro GNOME is looking the most interesting. Trying out the full vs the minimal lts installs on virtual installs to see which I prefer. I really like how easy they've made it to customise the DO while still keeping it beginner friendly. I appreciate having the option of both gui and cli solutions for doing things.
  • 1
    3y
    OMG. I just opened up the terminal in Manjaro GNOME.

    My heart is full.
  • 1
    3y
    Most servers I have to work with at the workplace run on either Debian or Red Hat (derivatives), so the choice for a Debian-based desktop was pragmatic. I feel the AUR pkg repository is superior though
  • 1
    3y
    Honestly, the main difference in distros are the packages and package manager.

    NixOS is my go to, bad initial learning curve but it is truly superb.
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