I’ll have to look into this, thanks!

Thanks for the recommendations! I’ve gotten a lot for bazzite, and a few for CachyOS.

I’ll be honest bazzite is looking better and better, but with CachyOS at least I could say I use arch btw lol

Another vote for basic Debian. Thanks!

That’s good to know! I’m definitely sick of Windows instability and constant bloated updates.

I appreciate that, thanks for the insight. I guess I wasn’t sure that it was that much better or necessary, and l know I’ve read a lot about incompatibility. But, if that’s where everything is going, and it’s better, then I’m willing to suffer through the growing pains.

Yeah thanks I was confusing snaps with flatpaks 👍

That’s really good to know thanks, I guess I need to do some more research into how exactly it works. I’m not informed on rpm-ostree yet. But I’ll take your word for it, and take it into consideration!

Definitely leaning heavily towards bazzite right now.

Of course I’m gonna do my due diligence and at least test out most of these distros. But look and feel only get you so far, so I appreciate the input of what’s under the hood!

Good to know!

Oh man, I do miss the cube. Are there modern versions of the cube? I don’t want to run outdated code, for the sake of stability

Interesting! First mention of opensuse I think. I’ve always heard of it but never checked it out.

The Fedora recommendations are really stacking up though. A lot of emphasis is being put on the benefits of being up to date. I hadn’t realized it was that important, but I’m inclined to believe it.

Thanks for the recommendations! What are your thoughts on bazzite? Being Fedora atomic based.

Nice! I think my first Ubuntu was Feisty Fawn, though it may have been Edgy Eft. I definitely remember Feisty Fawn, but Edgy looks similar and I may have had it first 🤷‍♂️

At any rate, Hardy Heron was my daily driver, no windows backup, for at least a year at the time, probably more. I really gave it a go haha.

As to Mint being out of date, this is the first I’m hearing of it so thank you. Another commenter actually gave some more detail, so I think I’ll look into it a bit deeper.

Yeah I was the same way with KDE, tried it, never liked it, always liked gnome. But it’s interesting that kde has improved so much. I’m willing to try new things, so I guess we’ll see!

Thanks for the encouragement and the information!

Interesting, this is the first I’ve heard of Mint being behind the curve on updates.

I do like the idea of bazzite, and I understand that you can do a lot of stuff without worrying about immutability getting in your way. But I do worry it might be a bit TOO hand holdy?

I’m not a Linux newbie, I know how to get dirty if I need to. I just want something nice and stable, to minimize the need to, if that makes sense 🤷‍♂️

But still, I’m not a guru, I’ve messed things up hard enough to need to reinstall before. Even though theoretically you shouldn’t need to do that🤷‍♂️

Yet another vote for Mint! I’m going to test drive all of these, but so far I think I’m tied between mint/lmde and bazzite.

Thanks for the thorough write-up! That explains a lot!

I feel like bazzite might be taking the lead! Though I’m gonna check all of these out. Thanks!

That’s good to know!

Good to know thanks!

Thanks!

A vote for Mint, good to know! Thanks!

Thanks for the information!

That’s fair, I think I was confusing flat packs with snaps.

Thanks

Another poster talked about it being atomic? Almost immutable? Have you ran into problems with anything like that? Changes you’ve made getting reverted?