Leah

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.

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 cloud 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.