cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/42673820

Looking for suggestions besides Kubuntu, KDE Neon, Debian, Arch Linux, or Kali.

Would be on a modest Dell Latitude with i5, 14" 1080p display with intel graphics, and maybe 16gb ram. I have previous experience with XFCE, Ratpoison, Openbox, KDE Plasma. Recently started trying out LXQT.

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    4 months ago

    Fedora.

    Its not new, its not special with some big changes or special kernels, it has sane settings.

    It has releases every 6 months, and updates about as much as arch

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    If you’re looking for something that won’t give you any headaches then I wholeheartedly recommend Bazzite. IMO it’s the best distro for the casual user.

    I’ve also been interested in NixOS lately for the ability to easily transfer and back up the config, but I have yet to make that jump. It seems like a really great way to set up an OS though.

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      Until you want to tinker with stuff that doesn’t have an appimage or flatpak, also on amd I’m convinced blender runs slower than it did on cachyos, davinci resolve doesn’t work no matter what work around I try it freezes my computer when loading a project. Cycles can’t recognize my gpu on bazzite either (blenders renderer), if it does (through tar not flatpak) it doesn’t work.

      I had no issues on cachyos, I just swapped to see if my displayport would work here, should’ve realized it’s a hardware issue earlier, did when I dualbooted windows and then googled my laptop and found out the usb c to display always had issues and likely never worked. (alienware m17 r5 all amd) Every person asking under warranty got it replaced with an nvidia variant.

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      4 months ago

      The only issue with this is it is Kubuntu, which is exactly what I already use. The theme and icon pack can be added onto any other distro, so that works.

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    4 months ago

    Here are options, which I’ll choose by dice roll. Laptop arrives eta today.

    • Project Name Window Manager
    • Devuan —
    • Fedora default Gnome
    • Gentoo Libreboot firmware
    • Void Sway or Niri + noctalia-shell
    • MXlinux Sway
    • CachyOS Niri + Limine
    • Bazzite
    • NixOS Cinnamon + Guix + Flakes
    • QubesOS Whonix
    • Zorin Gnome
    • LMDE
    • OpenSuse Slowroll
    • EndeavorOS Plasma
    • Slackware
    • Alma
    • Aurora
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      4 months ago

      I know a developer of it, but have never tried. Will add to the list of options. Anything else to consider in Qubes software?

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      Cool, I’ve tried Nix twice for a week at a time. Still have my configs. Struggling with lots of missing packages and the docs being frustrating, but love how it works once configured.