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[–] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Yep. I was using Plasma on Mint for a while but the consensus was you’re best off using a DE officially supported by the distro.

Never encountered any issues personally up to that point, but seemed to be the majority opinion when I researched it.

But my most recent switch was from Endeavour, so made much more sense to install Debian 13 than to Install Mint and then immediately switch DE.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Willingly switching from Arch to Debian says a lot about a person

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Well, context is everything. Obviously there’s no single best distro for all use cases.

    This is a 13 year old MacBook Pro, with ancient Linux-hating hybrid Nvidia/Intel graphics that needs an NVRAM modification and vga_switcheroo to do things like video acceleration properly.

    And not my main computer, just for learning Linux and playing some old games.

    So Endeavour worked great, but seemed like ultimately a computer that old is probably best off with stability and minimal updates rather than being bleeding-edge and subjecting it to gigabytes of updates each week.

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