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Why people change Distro? (thisfieldshouldnotberequired.foff)
submitted 5 days ago by Encephalotrocity@feddit.online to c/asklinux@lemmy.world
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I'm literally deciding which distro to install as a first timer. It's my understanding that Mint is the best for beginners migrating from M$ but knowing nothing about why this is the case one thing nags me:

Why do people switch distro's? What isn't in Mint that you get elsewhere? I really don't want to waste time using Mint if I'm just going to have to reinstall something else because it turns out it is bad for gaming or doesn't support many devices or something.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I started off with Slackware. It was the only distribution back then.

I switched to RedHat, as it offered better comfort. Then, when RH turned their eyes on commercialization, I moved to SuSE. I switched computers and learned that Nvidia and SuSE was a bad combo, and switched to Kubuntu. Kubuntu is my current distro because it uses Plasma/KDE, but i seriously dislike that snap shit. Maybe I move on to other pastures.