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Since I bought a new laptop, I'll need to install linux on it. (I may not bother installing windows on it at all.)

I have used Linux Mint and Pop!_OS (The dumbest OS moniker ever, IMO). Pop has been wearing thin. Mint was stable but not exactly . . . cool? Inspiring? And also just another debian fork.

If you were to recommend to me a flavor of linux, what would it be? I am NOT a dev, I don't game, and I mostly just complain on nostr, surf, and use freecad on occasion. I would like to eventually be able to run more local nostr stuff. I do not need to do anything too heavy with graphics of compute as I will never run an LLM on the laptop directly. If my T420 wasn't literally falling apart and costing more to fix than a new used laptop, I would be totally fine with it forever.

So . . . Whatcha got?

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Enki 5mo ago 💬 2

Debain + the KDE desktop.

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Enki 5mo ago 💬 3

I kind of went balls to the wall with my installation and started with just the core Linux files and then installed a light version of the desktop to avoid a lot of the KDE pre-installed stuff that comes with it. (You'll face those same problems with gnome and other desktops, I just wanted less preinstalled stuff and took more time to set up.)

The Beave 5mo ago

That might be something I would do. I find that I want a more lightweight OS since I don't need a heck of a lot other than multi-monitor support (I tend to run three screens in a docked config). Thanks for the recommendation. I will poke around some more and see what other people have to say.

Richi 5mo ago 💬 1

Is this also possible with GNOME instead of KDE?

And if you use the core Linux files. Which package manager do you end up using?

Bill Cypher 5mo ago

Yes.

You still use pacman.

Core Linux based Arch isn't Linux from scratch. It is just a minimal install, which in Arch world means something a bit more extremely minimal than most other distros version of extreme.

Richi 5mo ago

Thanks for the explanation!

The Beave 5mo ago

Your lightning address isn't working.