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What's a good, beginner-friendly distro that allows for easy switching between GNOME and KDE? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by scheep@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm thinking of switching to Linux as my daily driver after trying it out both Fedora Workstation and KDE using Live USB, but I'm wondering if I should consider other distros besides Fedora. I've heard of openSUSE, is that decent? Not many people really mention them. Linux Mint is great, but I don't like Cinnamon all too much.

What's a good desktop-agnostic distro that lets you easily swap between the two?

edit: Woah, it seems that you're able to swap between DEs from the login manager as long as you install both.

Okay then, new question, for a beginner friendly distro, should I go for Fedora, OpenSUSE, or something else?

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[–] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Mint comes with a few desktop environment/window manager options: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_all.php Cinnamon, MATE, and XFCE. It's also capable of running KDE and basically any other option, you just have to install it in a slightly more manual way.

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I've heard that Mint doesn't play well with DEs that aren't Cinnamon (or Mate/XFCE), is that still an issue? Also, do the benefits of Mint (not requiring the terminal for everything) vanish if you KDE Plasma or GNOME?

[–] the_abecedarian@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

I haven't been a mint user for a while, but the fact that the mint folks specifically release MATE/XFCE versions is a good sign that they are tested for compatibility. You can try those versions on liveusb, too.

I'm guessing here, but the "less terminal needed" parts of Mint are probably specific tools and GUI settings managers they have put together to be more user friendly. if you search something like [name of Mint settings manager or tool] XFCE compatible, you'll likely get an explanation. You might want to check out their Matrix chat room with specific questions: https://app.element.io/#/room/#linuxmint-space:matrix.org