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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu. I initially downloaded it for my sibling's pc but now that I've downloaded and configured all these things on their computer, I don't want to reinstall a new OS and reconfigure and download everything again.

[–] kavin@feddit.rocks 1 points 2 years ago

Zorin OS, which was the second distro I ever tried, I hated how outdated their repos were since they were using an older Ubuntu LTS repository for packages. It was quite painful to install software that would otherwise have worked out-of-the-box on Ubuntu. I hope this is no longer the case today.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I game a lot, so I need the latest drivers. So anything with a slower release schedule than Manjaro is a no go for me.

[–] tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

GNU Guix. Need to do an Ayahuasca ceremony sometimes and try again with a much more radiant mind.

[–] NixDev@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

Garuda. Looked pretty and tried it for a day or two and noped out. Went back to Manjaro before I figured out how to install Arch without the installer

[–] tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Anything that's not Ubuntu, because it's the "mainstream Linux", so guaranteed I'll find anything I need there.

[–] Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 0 points 2 years ago

Linux mint waaaaaaay back when it first launched.

[–] anthoniix@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Gentooo, the only reason I' use it is so I could bring up systems on old architectures. Besides that it really isn't worth it.

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

EndeavourOS - I have tried Arch as well but EndeavourOS is just nicer out of the box. The AUR is awesome, and I generally find answers for any problem more easily than I did for any other distro.

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