Looking for suggestions besides Kubuntu, KDE Neon, Debian, Arch Linux, or Kali.

Would be on a modest Dell Latitude with i5, 14" 1080p display with intel graphics, and maybe 16gb ram. I have previous experience with XFCE, Ratpoison, Openbox, KDE Plasma. Recently started trying out LXQT.

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

i noticed you havent tried fedora atomic cosmic. if youre just looking to run the gamut of DEs its probably the best cosmic distro right now. bonus points its fairly easy to rebase between each fedora atomic distro so you can DE hop without too much pain

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds fun. I did try Cosmic some time ago on a live disk and it had almost no features at that time, but was very snappy.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    theyve come a long way, i keep an eye on them all the time. i think its possible that one day they will eclipse kde in functionality but theyre still in the adding features stage. its getting close though, maybe another year baked and i'll swap entirely. its very snappy on cheap laptops, fully recommend it for that use case

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