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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7066703

Like I hear a lot of people trying a lot of different distros till they find the one they stick with.

Is there a point in Distro hopping ? Like assuming im mostly content with my Mint. Have been using it for about 10 days now.

Ofc Im curious about Desktop enviroments for example. Cinnamon is nice if a bit basic. But beyond that am I missing out on some cool stuff :3

Sorry if this a babys first Linux question.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Is there a point in Distro hopping ?

There's honestly little point especially if you're just hopping between distros that use the same package manager/come from the same distro family, but everyone who starts out on Linux does it, so you might as well. In my first year using Linux, I basically went:

Laptop: Ubuntu -> Linux Mint Cinnamon DE -> Lubuntu -> Crunchbang (defunct distro with Bunsenlabs as its successor)

Desktop: Linux Mint Cinnamon DE -> Linux Mint xfce DE

on top of various distro I tried out in VMs but never installed like ElementaryOS.

If you don't want the hassle of setting up Ventoy, use this: https://distrosea.com/ You're basically remoting in to various VMs of distros someone has set up.