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When I moved our stuff oelver, it was a a toss-up between: Zorin, Solus, and Pop! Opted for Zorin. Not disappointed but I'm still eyeballin' Solus as a secondary. May revisit pop! again.

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I'll give it a try in a VM.

Which desktop environment do you recommend? Budgie, GNOME, KDE Plasma, XFCE....?

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KDE or cinnamon. Xfce in a distant third.

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I run KDE. I can't recall how I set it up for my wife, but I ran defaults, and I think it ran KDE as default.

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If it's older hardware or a VM (that you actually want a GUI in) I run with XFCE or LXDE. Its light weight and still works well. GNOME went all woke and faggoty apparently but I have not used it in a long time since it just did stuff that pissed me off and unless you used the classic mode it felt like they are trying to turn it into a tablet UI.

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It has the same major flaw that Mint has. Ubuntu based. They disabled snaps, yes, but the base distro is still Ubuntu. As long as you keep that in mind, it's a pretty good alternative to the host distro.

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I did try it and I prefer Mint.

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Same. And that's a stretch cause I don't really like Mint either. But, it's one of the few distros that still has access to old Nvidia drivers so I'm stuck here for a while.

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I tried pop for a while and was not a huge fan. Maybe ill try it again. I usually used RedHat bases but that is getting old, I have been using Mint as my "daily driver" just for simplicity.

All of my home-lab servers are still RHEL based for the most part though (Rocky Linux at the moment).

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I thought Pop!_OS was a marketing gimmick to sell system76 overpriced laptops

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lol really?

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I honestly can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not

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I have seriously never heard about Pop! and system76.

I only tried it in a VM, because I'm looking for a lightweight OS for an old PC turned into a media-server and retro-games station.

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Yes and no. They just forked Ubuntu and put their own spin on it for their laptops and netbooks originally. I actually have a System76 netbook, but it runs Arch (when I ever turn it on anymore). I haven't used pop yet though. Maybe it is good, but I don't really like Debian derivatives.

[–] • 0 pt

Good distro, but jubuntu makes for a shitty foundation.