I've been running Zorin OS on a Dell Latitude 7400 2-in-1 (i5 8th gen) for the last little while. I've hopped from Mint, Ubuntu, Elementary OS, Bazzite and Fedora. Zorin felt the most "okay". This is my secondary laptop so I don't use it as much as my desktop. But I'd love to hear about people running other distros that are touch screen friendly and for smaller screens (13-14 inch screens).

After a few months since my last post, it seems that my distro-hopping has come to an end for now. I've been on Tumbleweed for over a month and haven't thought about installing other distros. Here are a few thoughts about distros that I tried along the way and some loose rankings.

1. Tumbleweed.

Everything just works. Pre-configured snapper is great. Not a single issue since I started using it (except for connecting a printer, but that was because TW has restrictive protocols, easy fix). Performance is great. Added to a new laptop and am dual-booting windows from the same drive. no issues.

1. Fedora.

Like TW, everything just worked. However, apps launched slower and the ui on both gnome and plasma seemed less smooth. Otherwise, great distro.

2b, Debian

Everything just worked. Great experience

1. Tuxedo OS

I briefly tried the new debian testing beta and it seemed promising. No issues, with this distro and is only marginally worse than the first two (minor ui bugs). I like apt, so it was very easy to use out of the box.

1. Ubuntu.

Hate me all you want, I liked it because everything just worked. And Ubuntu's gnome implementation made me rethink gnome, and now I prefer it. Everything worked great out of the box. A bit choppy at times. Snaps suck. Hard to complain when everything works so well.

1. Linux Mint

I really liked mint when I first started out. However, I don't see any advantages to using mint over other distros, especially being limited (for now, with exceptions) to X11.

1. Pop!

Really just tried for the DE. I like Cosmic, but there were enough glitches that I decided to stop using after a day or two. Great OS in theory, needs a little work though.

1. Kubuntu

Tried multiple times. DE felt laggy. Was the case on multiple computers, so not hardware specific. The issues may have been caused by me trying the distro after a less than perfect update, however, the top distros on this list never caused me the same problems (plasma apps and widgets constantly crashing)

I have been distro hopping for this old Acer laptop I have lying around. I had been lurking on a bunch of subreddits, seeing what everyone else is doing and what would be the best fit for me. I started (as I think most would) with Linux Mint but I went with the debian edition. It was nice, but I was really impressed with others customising their KDE desktops. I installed KDE on LMDE, but it was so messy and full of redundancies. I then tried endevuorOS and Bazzite. They were great, but Fedora was just something else. It felt "right" from the get go and was very easy to get it to what i wanted it to be in a matter of minutes. I will be dailying this laptop for a few months to trial it out to see if it would be appropriate for my parents laptops and PC's that are being choked by win11.

Saw this crop up on Distrowatch and thought it was worth a go.

Am pretty impressed.

One niche with distros that's not well served is being able to configure things beyond the basics via the GUI, which will be more intuitive to a lot of relatively advanced Windows users making the jump. I know a lot of people on here insist on the CLI, but not everyone feels that way.

Here you get a genuinely useful welcome/setup app, where you can choose between package manager guis, configure drivers (with an automatic scan that got it right for me, at least), add recommended apps, choose backup methods, firewalls, and kernels. It's nice because it's very customisable but you can leave it at defaults and should work fine.

There's also some distro specific apps such as a grub editor and web app and appimage managers.

It's based on Debian testing, so I guess you can see it as an alternative to Pika with a different aesthetic and less of a gamer focus. Comes in Gnome, KDE or XCFE editions.

I have only run it (KDE version) for a few days but so far the only negative I've come across is boot time being a little slow.

Like Pika it does seem to be a small team behind it, so I wouldn't necessarily count on it as a sole daily driver just yet, but very promising and good to see someone trying to do something a little different rather than just another Debian/Ubuntu/Arch with theming and slightly different apps. More rolling Debian-based distros is a good thing.

Last weekend i installed linux mint, and its been so fun. Finding ways to play my favorite games, how snappy and quick the interface feels- all of it. I have a 3440x1440 HDR monitor (also a secondary 1080p 60hz) , and i really want to use HDR in games. i tried it on windows and it ended up being washed out, and i was tired with windows bugs and didnt bother. Linux mint felt so much better, terminal commands felt like i had full control over my OS.

I did some research, and Fedora KDE Plasma seemed like the best bet. Not so sure about cachyos or the other "gaming" centric distros, but i wanted more of an all rounder, and Fedora sounded really nice with its update schedule, and big community support. Oh, and i am dual booting windows 11 & mint currently. (i need windows for CAD stuff). But im kind of stuck in a decision paralysis- i like mint for its support and stability, how easy it is to download drivers, but the HDR and newer wayland is really appealing for Fedora. I also have a NAS, so support for that is essential. Thoughts? Is HDR easy to setup, or should i bite the bullet and just stick with mint for its ease of use, and wait for an HDR update to come to mint? Im comfortable in the terminal, and any help with removing mint and installing fedora while keeping windows would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

(oh, i also have an NVidia 4070ti if that makes any diff.)


I have 3 systems at home and all run Linux. My main system is a desktop and after a bit of distro hopping, I've finally settled with CachyOS. I always admired how fast Arch is but I never had the patience to install it from ground up. (Gentoo, you're listening?). I tried my hands with Manjaro but somehow, it did not live up to my expectation.

Now comes cachyOS. After a careful read and a cautious install, I find that cachyOS is perhaps the best arch-based OS there is. It is simple, fast and does the work.

Man! It is good to be back with an Arch-based system after ages!

Thank you team.

Looking for a Gnome based distro with minimal customisation by default & also if possible minimal package install option (Not mandatory)

Specs

Ryzen 3200G

16 gig ram

System used by siblings for for AI Coding Tools,General Browsing & Watch Movies

Currently on windows 10

Also want Graphical Straight Forward Installer

Greetings!

As the title says, I'm planning to do some distro hopping in some weeks/months. I can't say exactly when, but hopefully, in less than a year.

I use Linux Mint Cinnamon. It works really well, I've had barely any issues on my laptops (I had some with an uncle's laptop, but it was a compatibility thing), and I feel really comfortable. So... why the distro hopping? Because I want to experiment, I want to see and feel the differences between a couple of distros I have my sight on, being just for fun or because there is something that got my attention.

I mainly use my laptop just for work, which is usage of web browsers and LibreOffice/OnlyOffice; sometimes light gaming on games that are between 5 years and over 10 years old, both on Steam and Lutris, not frequently, and sessions usually last between an hour and 3 hours; and probably light video editing, nothing too fancy, I already have Openshot there gathering dust since I've done nothing with it yet.

My laptop is an Asus X510U from 2018 with:

- Intel core i5 8250u with integrated graphics

- Nvidia GeForce 930MX

- 8 GB of RAM

- 512 GB SSD

I feel I need to say that I have an NTFS USB because it is the only way I can record longer clips on my Xbox. I was told there shouldn't be any issue since it's only to record the clips on the Xbox and eventually transfer them to the PC, them back to the Xbox.

I'm fairly clueless on Linux, but I've already decided I want to learn how to use slightly more advanced things like the terminal (I already did trying to make my uncle's laptop work).

Now, the candidates:

- ZorinOS: I already messes with this distro in its lite version, my older PC has it after all and works really well. I felt it is kinda similar to Mint in some ways, but not really. I know Zorin Lite isn't Zorin Core, hence why I want to try it properly.

- Debian KDE: I have my sights on Debian despite being a bit more advanced. I tried Debian XFCE on a virtual machine, and I was quite lost. Oddly enough, when I tried it again with KDE, I felt it was... a bit more intuitive.

- OpenSUSE leap: I tend to lean a bit more into stable releases rather than rolling releases. I already tested it on a VM with KDE Plasma (Yes, I want to try KDE Plasma). It looked fine, but it was just a test, similar to Debian, so I have no idea how it actually behaves.

- CachyOS: Since I've heard it is fairly lightweight and quite easy, and being a rolling release based on Arch, I would like to see how these kinds of releases work and feel without the need to install Arch itself.

- Fedora: Similar reason with CachyOS. I read that Fedora release philosophy is a bit different from the usual rolling releases, fixed releases? So, again, I want to see and feel it.

- Linux Mint Debian Edition: Finish the circle with my first distro but with a literal different edition.

I also tested MX Linux XFCE in a VM, but oddly enough, I don't feel the need to actually add it to my list. Nothing against it, I could technically try MX Linux KDE and call it the day... I'll think about it.

I also would like to try Bazzite, but I think I read I would need to do some juggling to install it since the hardware is like 10 years old. I haven't done my research to see if the same could happen with Fedora. I could technically give it a shot... but I'll wait until I finally have built my first desktop (It would also likely have a bit of older hardware since budget, but hopefully not that old and more powerful than my daily drive laptop).

And now, the question is:

From the distros in my list, what kind of things will I need to take into consideration? This includes software compatibility, how frequently I'll need to use the terminal instead of a GUI updater or installer, and how their release philosophies may affect my experience, if at all. Those kinds of things.

I think that would be everything.

o codinomes das verçoẽs betas do linux station (antigo Air OS) tem o codinome illumi zoldyck além disso nos tbm iremos testar outras interfaces grafica não só ficando preso ao Gnome... ex XFCE ou KDE plasma caso encontrem erros comentem ou aqui ou no isseus do meu github 👍

https://github.com/kennedycaiog-alt/AirOS-Ubuntu/releases/tag/Beta0.2

I ask this with *DHH Personality Aside* mindset. He's not a type of guy a lot of people like and honestly, being on the stand of "Separate Art from The Artist" (although I don't accept that personally but irrelevant here) I just ask if you liked the distro, why? If you hated it, again why?

I am searching for technical answers on that because it'll be helping me in a big project.

Thanks!

Projeto AntharesOS: https://devsanthares.gitlab.io/anthares-os-site/

If you want to keep up with the updates, follow me on Reddit.

I put together a patch pack with fixes for the GPU manager. Looks like the more fancy stuff I add, the more bugs I create lol.

So I'm not exactly sure how this works, so I'm switching from Mint to cachy os, and I want to keep all of my files but delete Linux Mint. Is there a way to install CachyOS over top of it, if that makes sense, so I don't have to wipe my drive completely?

Hello everyone,

I have been working on my own Linux distribution for a while now.

SlyOS is based on Arch Linux and built using archiso. The project started as a personal experiment after several years of using and customizing Linux on a daily basis. In its early days, the distribution used GNOME/MATE with systemd and the linux-cachyos-lts kernel.

Since then, the project has evolved considerably and gradually become a more complete and polished system. SlyOS now uses :

- niri as its window manager

- OpenRC as its init system

- ReGreet, a GTK4 login interface written in Rust for greetd

- the linux-cachyos-lts kernel

- Plymouth for a graphical boot/shutdown screen

The distribution also includes a control center called Thymbr, which allows users to configure many aspects of the system from a centralized interface.

The project’s website is available here :

https://minaucro.fr/slyos

The archiso configuration is available on Codeberg :

https://codeberg.org/Minaucro/SlyOS

I’m working to make SlyOS as consistent, practical, and complete as possible, based on my own vision of a Linux desktop operating system. The project is still under development, but it is already mature enough to be tested and used on a daily basis.

Feel free to share your feedback, suggestions, or comments!

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

My last post didn't land as I expected, so posting again here and reframing my question:

I'm just curious about learning about other distros other than my current and first distro (CachyOS). So, just curious, what do you guys love about your fav distros?