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    submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    [–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    someone who switches away from the distro's default desktop environment is not a new user.

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Yes, but a lot of them have multiple DEs (Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu...) and sometimes the DE is specific to the distros (Mint).

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Linux Mint uses Cinnamon as the DE, which you can use with Fedora (and probably others).

    https://fedoraproject.org/spins/cinnamon/

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

    You can actually choose to download an Linux Mint iso with either Cinnamon, MATE, or Xfce, so you're not exclusively locked into Cinnamon.

    [–] iopq 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    You get to choose whatever in my distro's installer

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    only distro ive tried that had that was debian (and arch if you count a tty as an installer), which one do you use?

    [–] iopq 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    NixOS

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    isnt nix installed in a similar way to arch?

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

    Endeavour OS offers these on install

    But the post is more about recommending a DE to start with/them picking one they like since it’s visual. And then you recommend a distro where that is default