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What's your preferred DE? (lemdro.id)

submitted 2 years ago by governorkeagan@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.

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[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plasma definitely. Xfce is second.

[–] governorkeagan@lemdro.id 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Any preferences on the distro? I’ve been enjoying Fedora but I’ve also tested Ubuntu and enjoyed that

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You should try Arch btw

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 7 points 2 years ago

Not for beginners, that's just mean

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Tbh youre probably better off on something like Linux Mint or something else Debian or Ubuntu based. Fedora is a good distro but rpms are a lot less common than debs are and alien does not entirely fix that issue.

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While I would still recommend Ubuntu or Mint or even Debian, I have been using openSUSE for years and have never run into a case where I had to compile software.

[–] Secunergy@social.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@raptir @xkforce Isn't compiling normally for #gentoo ?

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 6 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure why you are bringing Gentoo into it here. I mean that all the software I have tried to install is either available in the repos or available as an appimage/flatpak. Were it not available in binary form I would need to compile it - and I have not run into that scenario.

[–] governorkeagan@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

I'll probably end up settling on Ubuntu. Thought I'd try a couple before making a final decision.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 4 points 2 years ago

Ubuntu is doing an annoying attempt to generate lock-in and profits by forcing snap on everyone and making it annoyingly difficult to avoid.

Consider one of the ubuntu derivatives (there's a number of them, Mint, Pop etc) in preference to ubuntu itself, a debian derivative (KDE neon for example) or go with Fedora if you're a business orientated user.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I landed on openSUSE Tumbleweed about five years ago and still don't see myself hopping to another one

[–] imgel@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Opensuse TW or Fedora

[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Fedora Plasma is truly awesome!

[–] steersman2484@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Install gentoo

[–] steersman2484@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But for real, depends on your use case I use arch on my dev machine and you get nearly every package in the AUR