I'd start mixing it up if I got a new computer and could play around more on my current laptop.
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I'm on Nobara for 3 years now after spending a year on manjaro. Nobara is pretty sweet, performance is top of the line, its stable and I get packages decently fast.
But I hate not being able to use discover to update.
So I'd switch if something had a cooler fetch logo and was able to fix that.
I'm familiar with the linux system ive done gentoo and arch but why I use distros like nobara and fedora is because i can't be fucked to keep up with what the latest optimisation are and then implement them.
I'm attracted by Alpine Linux, but it lacks an official way to use glibc for the programs that unfortunately use some glibc extension...
Shadow updating their Linux app to support anything other than Ubuntu 20.04...
It's the only reason I use it, and it's weird and bad that they only support that distro and version (which has reached EOL). I've talked to them about it and all they say is "We see the need from users for support of newer Ubuntu versions and other distros" which is such a nothingburger of an answer.
I spent three days with several other distros and Ubuntu versions trying to figure out a fix but sadly never found one.
I just wanna use Linux Mint or anything other than Ubuntu, especially a 5 year old version.
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This is an image someone else posted here. Asking if there was a desktop environment that looked like that. There wasn't really.
For the record, I run Linux Mint Xfce with Chicago95. Honestly it was a mistake, the vibes of the UI are nice but it still feels kinda Linuxy (as in, held together with duct tape) and I keep roling up Firefox by mistake. SerenityOS or FreeBSD, something Unix-like, may be more what I'm looking for.
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