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looking for half-stable Linux distro (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, i am currently looking for a Linux distribution with these criteria:

-it should be more or less stable, comparable to Ubuntu with or without LTS // -it should not be related to IBM to any way (so no fedora/redhat) // -it should not feature snaps (no Ubuntu or KDE neon) // -KDE plasma should be installable manually (best case even installed by default) // -no DIY Distros //

I've been thinking about using an immutable distro, but if anyone can recommend something to me, I'd be very grateful //

Edit: I'm sorry for the bad formatting, for some reason it doesn't register spaces

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Definitely Debian. Or Mint if you also like the cinnamon desktop (which is similar to KDE's in terms of default look).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cinnamon has no real Wayland support, along with all the fancy stuff like perfect fractional scaling, multi refresh rates, HDR support, and whatnot. At least Wayland support is important

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They didn't specify that requirement. For instance, I have zero need for any of that and therefore can keep on trucking on Xorg until Wayland reaches my DE of choice in a stable form.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I imagine installing KDE on Mint is not a good experience. You would need to remove the entire desktop, all the iconsets etc. and then install KDE.

Lets see which X.org desktop wins the race for 3rd place with real Wayland support! I sure hope for the best.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have yet to find an actual description of said difficulties. I've used Debian based distros for over 20 years, with a recent hiatus of some 3 years recently when I simply stopped using PCs at home. A different DE was always just an apt-get away, then select which of the N installed DEs you wanted to try at the login screen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

setup autoupdates
setup virt-manager
install flatpak apps

This is for sure different on GNOME than on KDE, my reference is GNOME and its horrible packagenames make debloating a pain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What part of that is related to installing a DE side by side another? I'm genuinely asking. Never had to do any of that. Why are you doing it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Ok saw it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I imagine installing KDE on Mint is not a good experience. You would need to remove the entire desktop, all the iconsets etc. and then install KDE.

Then WTF are you talking about here? How can your experience in DIY distro be applicable in any way to Mint?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Oops, wrong comment, the Mint guy not the Debian guy. I would expect some theming issues. In general Mint->remove cinnamom->add plasma-desktop may be fine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Unless you're running from a thumb drive, no need to remove anything. That's really the beauty of it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In my experience mixing themes is a bad idea. So yeah, remove stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Themes? They're entirely different DEs. Again, your experience with DIY Linux is worth nothing. Stop spreading misinformation to newcomers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I have experience with GNOME and KDE and their themes overlapped a lot. If you say this is not the case with Cinnamon, that is cool!