Until now I’ve had fedora, opensuse and arch. I don’t really like arch nowadays, so I was thinking more of a fedora cinnamon or LXQT. Opensuse is okay I guess. Any suggestions?
You said no ubuntu so here’s some debian distros ;) MX linux, Sparkylinux, LMDE, Q4OS
No seriously though, all of those have their fans and in my opinion deserve a look. MX linux has one of the better xfce setups out of the box imo, sparky has lots of cool DE packages, LMDE is mint but better-nt, and Q4OS is one of the few distros that includes an out of the box trinity setup.
I came here to suggest MX Linux w/XFCE. I use the plasma flavor mostly now but I’ve been using MX as my daily driver for like… 2-3 years now.
I stopped distro hoping with NixOS. It’s been very stable for me and even in the few cases I had an issue is so easy to just restart on a previous generation and revert changes that it does not matter.
As much as I dislike the lack of OOTB customization with cinnamon, I have not had any problems with Linux Mint. It is Ubuntu based but it’s one of those distros that slowly adopts new things ( Wayland still experimental ) to ensure they can make it functional, but things eventually flow to it.
I was gonna say something about MX, but I realized I only have experience with the version with Plasma. I’m sure the other editions are good too, but don’t take my word on it.
Gentoo, Arch, Debian, EVERY DISTRO!
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Have you tried COSMIC yet? Maybe PopOS is worth a shot.
Some packages are a bit old at the moment but they have a release coming in April / May that will bring them right up to date.
Perhaps LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is worth a look as well.
Both options are similar in that they take a very stable distro base and layer on a quite up-to-date desktop.
They also feature clear direction and a predicable release schedule.
LFS???
Bohi linux?
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Debian/lxqt.
Has anyone tried the new openKylinOS 2.0 SP2? It is supposed to have DeepSeek integrated into it.
Nix
I decided to start recommending it after I read the article lol
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Linux Mint is not a “rando ubuntu fork”. It’s the most reliable OS for me, along Debian-Stable. It has prefs for almost everything, sane defaults, and a clear release and support schedule. And it uses Cinnamon. I’ve tried everything under the sun, I always come back to Mint. It works.
I also love Mint, though I now run the Debian-based one (LMDE).
Debian.
Debian.
Debian.
Debian
Debian.
Has some one mentioned Debian yet? They should mention Debian.
Trixie
With xfce, since op doesn’t want plasma or gnome
Any Arch/Debian. If you’re picking Distros based on which UI they package, you’re doing your self dirty by ignoring options that might be more what you want. You can always swap out the UI. It’s not a corr part of most distros.
