I switched to Ubuntu-MATE many years ago when Gnome3 and Unity desktops became the standard. It was a pretty seamless transition from Gnome2... Then when Ubuntu started relying on snap packages I switched to Debian with MATE, another seamless transition. MATE is the desktop that doesn't get in the way of me getting things done. LXDE and Xcfe are OK too, and I'll use them on older (32-bit) computers. --Bob. On 2022-05-02 16:32, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
Why wouldn't you consider Debian? I run it on a firewall, my personal computer, our media center and two music server rasberry PIs.
I run some stations KDE, some XFCE and some headless. There is no requirement to take snapd. If you feel Debians release cycle is too slow, follow the testing branch as I do. Development environments, editors, text and graphics manipulation, git tooling, servers: its all there.
On 2022-05-02 04:36, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
Thanks. Ugh.
Your timing is perfect, because I'm just about to do a fresh install and this would be the time to decide on something else.
I'm looking for an alternative that will offer support for a KDE version as well as Steam and my fairly-new AMD graphics card (RX 6500 XT). I'd also prefer to live snap-free.
Mint and Pop don't support KDE, SuSE has problems with Steam and I'm exhausted enough that I don't want one more learning curve wrt the Arch way of doing things. Right now my best choices appear to be MX, KDE Neon (if I install the 32-bit libraries for Steam) and (if I want to go back to an RPM-based system for the first time since Mandriva ceased,) Fedora KDE.
Any suggestions, either from these choices or something else? Thanks again.
Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56
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