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Ubuntu's trust problem in 4 concrete issues - verified facts, no FUD (media.piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Pop!_OS uses COSMIC (a modified GNOME), not KDE.

Linux Mint uses Cinnamon (a modified GNOME 3) or MATE (a modified GNOME 2), not KDE.

The answer to "why not Debian" is that I try to install Debian first every time, but if it doesn't work for whatever reason I grab Kubuntu instead of trying to troubleshoot it. 3 of the 4 desktop computers I've tried to install Linux on lately ended up with Kubuntu instead of Debian.

(For my personal desktop that tends to have a bleeding-edge graphics card at the time of building/installing, that's understandable. For the other computers, for other members of my family who don't need the latest and greatest, Debian's failure to support several-year-old hardware -- at least in the installation environment, without fiddling -- was less forgivable.)

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 20 hours ago

I'm sure you can install KDE on either of those.

I'm surprised Debian doesn't Just Work for you though. I recently converted my laptop and desktop and had no issues.

Debian should be great on old hardware too. Longevity is part of their mission. The installation environent might be a bit tricky if you have really old or uncommon hardware, but in those cases I just pick the text installer, which has much fewer dependencies.