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I have already tried out Linux Mint. But I want to try out other distros.

PC specs:

  • Intel Core i5-10400

  • 16 GB of RAM DDR4

  • 1 TB NVME SSD

  • 256 GB SATA SSD

  • Intel UHD 630

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your PC can run any distro smoothly. What are you looking for that Mint doesn’t provide?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Personally, I'm looking for reproducible environments where if you create a lock file of your packages, you will get the exact same system on another machine if you copy it over

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you would like an immutable distro such as Fedora Silverblue?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm already using NixOS, which is even more powerful since it can configure my software as well as my system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's why I'm on it :^)