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What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"? (feddit.uk)
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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] phpinjected@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Arch

[–] paolab@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I have tried a bunch of them: Manjaro, Fedora, Opensuse Tumbleweed, Mx Linux, EndeavourOS, Arcolinux, Debian, currently LMDE. But Fedora, the spin with XFCE not the default one, never convinced me enough to keep it., is the one that never convinced me enough to keep it.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I game a lot, so I need the latest drivers. So anything with a slower release schedule than Manjaro is a no go for me.

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

anything with GNOME or xfce. modern cinnamon is ok ig but KDE plasma just makes anything bearable for me

[–] recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Gentoo because while it was fun to try I sure as hell won't be waiting around for my stuff to compile.

[–] CCL@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tails

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[–] Montagge@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Puppy Linux
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[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not too ick someone's yum, and this ventures outside of Linux.

I dislike the BSDs. Great for getting pf, and not being a homogeneous shop, but just different enough to be difficult outside of one specific use case.

Gentoo was similar. It may be different now, but a pain on the Xbox.

Mint was too dumbed down and ugly.

Ubuntu is useful, but likely harmful with it's constant pushes to commercialize everything.

Redhat is needed for work, but the commercialization drives worse quality. Documentation seems purposely bad to drive training courses.

(Yes, I like Debian.)

[–] eric@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Fedora, as someone who uses mostly Arch and the AUR, I couldn't get used copr, flatpak, and dnf. I rather just use yay.

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