Update: I chose mint. I can trust Mint to update the backend.
I’m about to switch back to Debian.Any reason I don’t know of that Elementary OS would be a bad idea? I know Debian. I don’t know the nuances of Arch or red hat.
I found my final missing FOSS video editor that finally gets me off Windows. I’ve been having issues with indexing on windows, and they keep turning on that fucking reminder to sign into One drive even after I destroy it with a registry change.
ElementaryOS is a great system, if you need something that behaves and looks a bit like MacOS. It’s based on Ubuntu LTS versions, so should be good for a few years at a time.
So let me ask the usual question: why not Debian?
Debian + Flatpak for Gaming (Steam, Heroic Mangohud, etc.)
Debian is that friend that you model your love interests out of but want to keep strictly as a friend.
ElementaryOS has nothing to do with Red Hat or Arch. It’s Ubuntu LTS with a custom macOS-like desktop environment called Pantheon. Being based on Ubuntu LTS means packages only get updated every two years, so they can be a bit old. Debian has the same problem, tho. If you like macOS, you might want to use it. Otherwise, you might not. Worth noting that Pantheon is available on distros other than ElementaryOS (but not Debian).
I would suggest pop os instead. I can’t remember all the specifics but when I used elementary, they ended up changing a lot of stuff in an upgrade that didn’t float my boat.
What I do remember is that there is no system tray and the creators are philosophically very against having one (despite that still being a somewhat common design pattern that apps rely on), theming support got janky with the upgrade, and Nvidia support was not great.
Of course, Nvidia on Linux has a lot of issues all around but at the time I had one of those cards and pop os worked mostly fine despite that. I’m still on pop os due to what I perceived as a bad direction that elementary took back then. That was around 2021 iirc.
On the plus side, pop os is wonderful! It’s like Ubuntu minus all the bad parts and plus a lot of good ones. It feels very fast and I don’t really recall the last time I felt like I was fighting against it as a distro.
See, you kinda painted my mindset of why I made this post. Sometimes I felt like I was playing with eOS more than I was just using my computer apps. I was fighting to make sure they worked all the time.
Yeah I felt that way too sometimes. I’ve been using pop os for a couple years now and I’m quite happy with it
Yea seems to be a big go to for some. I’ll be using my distro with an 1135g7 and 32gb ram. So anything I use shouldnt chug. I’m just concerned about performance on integrated graphics for proton purposes.
I found my final missing FOSS video editor
Which one? I’ve been looking for a good long term solution.
Kdenlive is great! Shotcut was too basic
Kden kept crashing on me a few years ago. I’ll give them another shot, though, because I loved it (aside from that).
I haven’t used it in a few years either but I always see blog post and updates from the team. It seems like they’ve made a lot of progress
its basically ubuntu LTS with probably the best DE
but its base is really old and they take their time to upgrade it. and there is no inplace upgrade method, you have to reinstall every time.
No reason here, other than the fact that it’s not slackware.
