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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/42673820
Looking for suggestions besides Kubuntu, KDE Neon, Debian, Arch Linux, or Kali. I have previous experience with XFCE, Ratpoison, Openbox, KDE Plasma. Recently started trying out LXQT.
Would be on a modest Dell Latitude with i5, 14" 1080p display with intel graphics, and maybe 16gb ram.
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If you want a real adventure, try out Qubes.
Not a recommendation but this is currently a Linux Mint Debian Edition household for the most part. Just never had a reason to swap yet, I’m sure there will be. Careful with the wifi cards look up your specific model. As long as it has an ethernet cable you shouldn’t have to worry tho
All of them. Put home in a separate partition and just rename /home/kiol to /home/kiol2 before installing the next one and be careful not to format that partition. Also keep a space separated text list of all of your needed programs to paste into whatever package manager command in a file somewhere in your home dir. Go into distrowatch and try the most niche ones nobody has ever heard about too. Become THE distro hopper.
Do you want to actually have a rock solid (albeit, boring) computing experience? Mint or Debian (I know you said no Debian but everyone always come back to the big D eventually)
Do you want a neat flavor-of-the month distro that you’ll tinker with for a while and ultimately move on from? Void is pretty cool
Honorable mention: NixOS. It’s different but when it clicks for people, they never use anything else
MX Linux
Someone else asked for it as well. Been curious about it since trying AntiX
I suggest Void Linux and putting Niri + noctalia-shell on it.
Okay, added as an option. Another person requesting using Sway with Void.
Sway is also nice if you prefer more traditional tiling WM.
Only tiling manager I’ve ever used is Ratpoison, for a couple years
Then Sway might be a better fit for you. Though I definitely recommend Niri, since it’s a fresh look for tiling WMs.
It is on the list… someone asked for it with Void, and another with MXlinux
I have a Lenovo Flex 2 15, which has an i3, 1080p display with intel graphics (although it’s a 15" display) and upgraded to 16 GB of RAM
I use AntiX/MX Linux bc they’re made with lower spec/older systems in mind. I started with AntiX-core to keep everything as lightweight (not a ton of background processes = low memory usage, low cpu usage) as possible
I use Sway bc 1. It’s more lightweight than a full DE, and 2. Keyboard navigation is a must for laptops (trackpads only exist to inflict pain and misery on the world)
A couple great things about this setup is that it rarely overheats (as long as I keep it to a couple tasks at a time), and the battery can last for a 2 hours if I forget to plug it in
Even if you don’t end up going with any of these suggestions, please take this to heart: never stop tweaking your system. You end up learning so much about it, and every little change makes it feel all that much more special to you
Added to the list. I’ve been considering mxlinux, but went with lubuntu’s lxqt for experimenting recently. I make a podcast called Linux Prepper, where I’ve been exploring such setups.
CachyOS is pretty popular right now :)
Okay. Window manager or other software preference?
I haven’t tried anything other than KDE plasma, but Niri looked interesting. CachyOS has Limine as a boot manager option, and I liked it
The distro has a lot of desktop environment options in general
Okay
I bought an old laptop to install libreboot on and I’ve been messing with Gentoo. I see the appeal now that I’ve tried it. It took me a couple days to compile librewolf but assuming your laptop isnt from 2013 I imagine things would build a lot faster for you
Well… alright, added it on the wiki. So far I’ve heard Gentoo, or Fedora w/ Gnome
