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

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The only reason to change would be if you want a different desktop environment. You could do that with mint or go with a distro that mains a different DE.

    And if they picked the Cinnamon DE version, they can still install KDE or GNOME or whatever. There’s no reason to reinstall the whole OS just to get a different DE.

    OpenSuSE Tumbleweed

    Tumbleweed rocks, and it’s what I use. However, I don’t recommend it for new users because there just isn’t as much support out there, whereas Mint has tons of users and thus tons of support.