pipe01 ,

Fedora Silverblue or any of the other Fedora Atomic distros

Andromxda ,
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Or something Universal Blue-based like Bazzite or Aurora.

ulkesh ,
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

I like the concept of atomic distros, but the implementation leaves a lot to be desired for me. Having to reboot after installing any software seems counterproductive to me (admittedly this was my very limited experience when I tried Bazzite).

pipe01 ,

On Fedora you can run rpm-ostree apply-live to apply any changes you make without rebooting

ulkesh ,
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Learned something new, thank you! I’m old school so it’s going to take some time to acclimate I think.

pipe01 ,

Awesome! Fedora Atomic definitely has a learning curve, but once you get used to it it's one of the best experiences I've had

ulkesh ,
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Well I'm not on it anymore because it frustrated this old aging brain. I'm currently on Garuda. But I may give it a go in a VM again.

aarroyoc ,
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Alpine Linux, because it uses OpenRC and musl, it's an interesting choice a little bit different but I really like it nyself for servers.

Gentoo, the biggest source based distro, has Emerge, a very configurable package manager.

NixOS, uses the Nix programming language to install packages and configuring the system. Very powerful and breaks many conventions about Linux systems

velox_vulnus , (edited )

NixOS, Guix System, SerpentOS, Bedrock and T2 Linux? Meta-distributions (could be either simple config-based reproducible systems, immutable atomic distros or functional transitive-dependency package managers), micro-kernels and distributed systems are the next cool, bleeding-edge stuff in FLOSS OSes, and most of those projects are still in development.

By the way, NixOS and Guix System use Stores, instead of FHS (File Hierarchy Standard). To take it up one notch, Guix uses shepherd instead of systemd, so if anyone over here dislikes Lenning or systemd for some irrational reasons, you've got a nice distro, I guess. But do note that you don't get to swap init systems in both NixOS and Guix System - you're stuck with systemd and shepherd respectively.

Mambert ,

Most distros are the same under the hood. I'd recommend downloading different desktop environments. You can stay on Mint and keep all your files.

nicknonya OP ,
@nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

oh I'm doing this for fun, i don't plan to actually switch any time soon

what are some desktop environments you'd recommend aside from cinnamon

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Definitely KDE Plasma.

Mambert ,

I'd recommend KDE and Gnome. They're the two most popular and mainstream DEs. If you ever plan on switching to another distro, being familiar with these two will benefit you.

If you feel really confident, you can start playing with window managers.

pukeko ,

Day 1: Sway looks cool
Day 11: SwayFX looks cooler
Day 29: Hyprland looks wild
Day 44: niri looks fun
Day 63: This WM I found on a repo by a random Serbian guy looks great.
Day 97: I WROTE MY OWN WAYLAND COMPOSITOR AND WINDOW MANAGEMENT CONCEPT FROM SCRATCH

Mambert ,

Day 110: xnomad

rutrum ,
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You could always dip your toe into a tiling window manager instead of a desktop environment. Its got an initial learning curve, and it helps to have something to do to learn it, and not just playtesting it.

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