I am pretty new to Linux (a bit over a year) but to be fair, I haven’t really messed with it. Once set up, everything works, so I never really use the terminal. to me, it is just an OS, and i don’t mess under the hood with it.

I use Mint (Cinnamon) and I am pretty happy with it. My thoughts now are, with a new PC comming, if I should stick to Mint, or install an other distribution?

I use it mainly as a home desktop, but also do some image editing, video editing, learning CAD at the moment and of course a bit of gaming (through Steam)

Any advice is welcomed

  • Hugin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    18 hours ago

    If you can I’d stick with Mint. I updated my hardware recently and need kernel 6.14 or newer. I’ve not been happy with Arch and miss Mint.

    I’m thinking of giving NixOS a try as it also supports 6.14.

      • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        If they’ve already installed Arch I don’t think there’s much difference to EndeavourOS. Both use the official Arch repos, and the latter mainly makes installation simpler.

      • Hugin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        18 hours ago

        Thanks but it’s not so much difficult as I’ve learned I dislike a rolling release. Feels to much like being at work in a production environment.

        I think NixOS is going to give me the stability where I want it and the cutting edge where I need it. Being able to roll back changes to the OS sounds great. In theory anyway I’ll see how it goes in practice.

        Good news is I should be able to get it like I want on a flash drive and them just port the config to my SSD when I’m ready to nuke Arch.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          15 hours ago

          Being able to roll back changes to the OS sounds great.

          I don’t know a ton about NixOS, but rolling back changes is getting more and more common. openSUSE distros enable snapper by default (btrfs snapshots and rollbacks), and you can get the same working w/ pretty much any distro, provided you use an FS that supports snapshots.

          I’m currently testing out openSUSE Aeon (very similar to Fedora’s Silverblue, Steam OS, or Bazzite), which has an immutable base and relies on flatpaks for all applications. So far it’s working pretty well, and it’s an interesting concept:

          • rolling base - always latest kernel and desktop environment, and you don’t need to worry about it
          • containerized applications - the version of each app doesn’t depend on the base os

          Maybe you’d like something similar?

        • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          18 hours ago

          Nice. Hope that Nix works out for you then.

          I’m still figuring out where I really fall on the stability spectrum. Love the idea of stability, hate the idea of old packages. I’ll be looking at stable releases with Flatpaks at some point for my more work-oriented machines.