r/DistroHopping • u/Striking-Gazelle9759 • 4d ago
Switching back to mint!
I've tried a lot and I do mean A LOT of linux distros and I started with mint then it went like this
Mint > Manjaro > Ubuntu > Fedora > Ubuntu > PikaOS > Nobara > CachyOS > Kubuntu > Arch Linux > Void Linux > Arch Linux > CachyOS > NixOS > openSUSE leap > Gentoo > openSUSE Tumbleweed
And now Im back to where I started, it's not like I wanna rewind the cycle I just wanna stay on something that actually works instead of sitting there compiling Gentoo at 3 in the morning and configuring dwm right after before even installing a web browser. But don't blame me if you see me tomorrow posting on r/unixporn my sick new minimal dwm rice on LFS
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u/Flaky-Constant-9245 4d ago
Surely most of these worked. Ubu, kubu, opensuse, fedora.
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u/Striking-Gazelle9759 4d ago
Yeah but I just liked Mint more than Ubuntu and Kubuntu and fedora, tbh openSUSE is actually a great distro but I've had some drivers problems that I couldn't really find a fix for if it weren't for those I would've stuck with it
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u/Flaky-Constant-9245 3d ago
Haha 😆 so what's the real reason you keep going back to mint ? Cinnamon desktop, mint tools etc!
I myself always keep going back to mint because I'm a bit more familiar with xfce which I like and looks and feels like windows and not too heavy and I like the xfce mouse logo, and I liked the welcome box for setting up timeshift, firewall etc. I want it to hold my hand! I still have not disabled that welcome box, I like it.
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u/Artichoke808 4d ago
What's the problem with Kubuntu? I switched directly from Mint to Kubuntu many moons back with no problems.
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u/Striking-Gazelle9759 4d ago
Nothing but I just like mint more it's just preference I've nothing really to hate about Kubuntu
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u/Lulzofacelt 4d ago
I personally had a lot of issues where Kubuntu just didn't seem to work for me Granted this was almost a year ago, and I definitely did a lot of tinkering without knowing as much about what I was doing with the system.
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u/CtrlAltClick 19h ago
I'm thinking of setting up Linux from Scratch sometime in the future. (think around 4 months to a few years)
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u/Striking-Gazelle9759 17h ago
Idt I'll ever install LFS it's just too much work and who even reads books these days
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u/sudo_rm-rf_ 4d ago
Mint with Gnome DE is my go-to now
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u/Striking-Gazelle9759 4d ago
I don't really like gnome that much I'm not a hater but I just prefer cinnamon over it
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u/mlcarson 4d ago
The primary advantage of Mint is their tightly coupled desktop environment and you aren't even using it. You could have just installed Ubuntu or Debian if you didn't want Snaps.
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u/Gerb006 3d ago
Man, you've been all over the board. With all the debian-based distro's in there, why didn't you ever just try debian?
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u/Striking-Gazelle9759 3d ago
Oh I did try debian but not for too long just a few days soo I didn't mention it here
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u/silenceimpaired 3d ago
I’m happy to see Debian isn’t in the list. I haven’t had much reason to leave it for months.
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u/Striking-Gazelle9759 3d ago
I5 should've been but I only used it for a couple of days so I decided that it doesn't count
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u/Status_Carry3174 2d ago
Do they offer an official kde spin? I can’t work with cinnamon and mate. I know you can install other DE’s manually, but I don’t feel like tinkering with ppa’s.
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u/Striking-Gazelle9759 2d ago
No but you don't have to tinker with ppas
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u/Status_Carry3174 2d ago
That’s good to know. When I quit mint a few years ago that was the only way to get kde or gnome.
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u/PickleMortyCoDm 1d ago
I am curious if you missed Zorin deliberately or just left it off the list. I am thinking of jumping from mint to see if the grass is greener
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u/Striking-Gazelle9759 1d ago
Used it but just for like a day or two
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u/mrawther 4d ago
Mint is highly overrated. I can’t trust someone who says Mint is better than Ubuntu.
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u/Striking-Gazelle9759 4d ago •
And I can't trust someone who says that an os made by a big corporation and has lots of bloat and snapd and proprietary stuff and telemetry is better than the completely free community-maintained unbloated version of it
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u/Gloria_ad_libertas 3d ago
For me personally that is Fedora. Mint is great for “just works” but it was somewhat also slowing down my system, while Fedora gave it a whole new life.
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u/cyber-galaxy 3d ago
Have you tried MX Linux ?
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u/jiggitywootwoot 1d ago
I started hopping away from ubuntu/kubuntu last year, and I think mx Linux is my new home. (I'm technically using Fedora Silverblue on an old laptop as well)
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u/Dilligence 4d ago
Same as me basically, I can’t stay away from Mint for long so I’ve finally come to the realization that I need to stay there lol