What I’ve used so far:

  1. Ubuntu
  2. KDE neon
  3. Linux Mint
  4. Debian

I don’t really like the MacOS feel, so things like ElementaryOS are not an option. I’m eyeing Pop!_OS though, but maybe there are less known distros that are worth a try. Suggestions?

  • poVoq@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    You will probably have a bad time with anything other than Manjaro coming from Ubuntu, especially normal Arch.

    I would say give Manjaro a try first and only of you like arch based stuff switch to something else later.

    And IMHO the treasurer story was a storm in the waterglass issue that really was much less problematic than some people claim.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      That treasurer story was also just one of several shitty stories, though. Other dumb things they’ve done in the past years:

      • Let their certificates expire twice and told their users to “fix” it by setting back their system clocks.
      • Ship the proprietary FreeOffice by default (before backlash made them introduce a selection dialog in the installer).
      • Recently, the Manjaro Cinnamon Community Edition decided to ship the proprietary Vivaldi Browser by default. That is not a decision made by the official Manjaro distribution, but I still feel like that represents the general direction you should expect. And personally, I would want my distribution to at least reserve the right to audit the web browser that they recommend to me.
    • tmpodA
      1·
      3 years ago

      Garuda seems nice in terms of abstracting away the more “complicated” setup of Arch. Never used it though, so don’t take mt word for it.