Leah

Mine freezes the display output to one monitor after awhile. (Intermittent, my favorite.) This was probably 6-9months ago. Usually apps kept working behind frozen display. Just with reduced utility.

Monitors are identical make/model 2K 165hz

Toy commander was just pure joy back in the day.

I mean, fair. It also doesn’t have mint’s driver manger, which is a bummer.

Edit: it does have the driver manager! The hell with vanilla mint for sure then.

I’m an ubuntu hater / snap hater. I prefer my mint without junk in the trunk. I’ll confuse people though, I think systemd rocks. And let’s make more people mad, vim is a pointless flex and nano is better.

You’re not wrong. It’s a pick your poison sort of thing. I’m not in love with the burger menus either. KDE apps just feel bloated and fragile to me. (and have forever) I used to like Windows though, in a galaxy far, far away. So my opinion is probably whack.

I distro/DE/WM hopped a ton over the last year. I’ve wanted to love KDE/KDE apps for the last 20 years. Dolphin is fine, Nemo is just exactly what I want it to be. It also runs fairly well from the terminal over ssh and I can configure it fast since it doesn’t need a ton of tweaking. Dual pane and terminal plugin like was mentioned in another comment.

I threw the fedora 43 i3 spin on a box. So far so good. I haven’t rage quit back to cinnamon yet. Ended up chickening out and did i3 because I have Wayland nvidia multi monitor trauma. So I’ll ride X out a little longer.

It’s also developed by glorious egg roll, the GE in GE-proton. I wanted to love it but Wayland + multi monitor + KDE + Nividia = pain

No kidding…… interesting. It’s true that dolphin can do everything Nemo does, just poorly.

Mainline mint is a derivative of Ubuntu. Lmde is largely the same OS with a pure Debian heart without Ubuntu clogging the arteries

I could spin up a VM and check, I’m 99% sure you’re wrong. Also lmde includes almost the same preinstalled programs.

or…

apt install -y gparted

LMDE 7 and send it. Regular mint has Ubuntu nonsense baked in, lmde is basically the same end user experience and smooth Debian jazz underneath.

Like someone else said, steam, heroic.

I’d avoid any of the gamer distros.

Any advice? Or some good dot files / configs / guide you used?

Both are meh. I wanted to love KDE but it always lets me down. Cinnamon has been great, running a fedora spin with it now. Sway has been calling my name tho.

Gnome apps are better than KDE apps. GParted vs partition manager, for example. Dolphin sucks eggs next to Nemo too.

Just my incorrect opinions obviously. Use the stuff ya like.

EDIT: I’d avoid bazzite in general. They have great marketing and it works. But as an Immutable distro, aka read-only, it can give inexperienced users unique challenges to learning Linux. Caveats apply obviously and if you like it and it’s working for you that’s rad too. I’m a cranky bitch but I’m all about people enjoying their stuff to the max in their own way. And the more nerds using Linux the merrier.

I stick with X over Wayland but I’m an nvidia loser. I’m on fedora but would not recommend it to someone just starting out. Same with straight up Debian or arch. They’re all great if you know what you’re doing. But distros exist for a reason.

CachyOS/EndeavorOs. Rock on. I loved these and they’re my fallback if fedora or lmde makes me mad or I want need arch for some homelab thing. I’m weary of the AUR though, making arch kinda pointless for me.

But I stg if you complain about your second monitor again I’m taking your thunderbolt dock away.

Arch was fun for a while. I’m also a fedora enjoyer these days.