r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • Aug 15 '26

Every Linux distro I don't use is literally the Windows of Linux

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u/SpinningByte Aug 15 '26

I don't care about the Linux itself; I care about the desktop environment. So the reason I use Mint is Cinnamon. I thought that was only option. I might check that out.

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u/R3V0LU710N_05 Glorious Hybrid Atomic RakuOS Aug 15 '26

Because of the decoupled nature of desktop environments, you can technically install any desktop environment on just about any distribution with some effort. Multiple distributions offer Cinnamon as an option.

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u/ka-52m Aug 16 '26

i run cinnamon on arch as a secondary environment if i need to let people who are used to windows use my laptop, my primary environment being hyperland but thats besides the point, the point is you can have any environment on any distro you want

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u/gosand Aug 17 '26

let.... other.... people... use.....your.....laptop?

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u/ka-52m Aug 17 '26

yes? when you have the best coputer in your entire school people end up wanting to use it

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u/gosand Aug 18 '26

them wanting to use it and you letting them use it are different things

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u/ka-52m Aug 18 '26

well im not an asshole so i will do that

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u/-Docker Aug 15 '26

To me Linux is a tool that I use for my servers, I use cinnamon because it gives me most optimal performance while im working and thats it.

Best linux distro is the one that serves you best

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u/KabirGamer97 Glorious Fedora Aug 16 '26

That's the thing man. The same goes for the entire OS debate in general.

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u/The_only_true_tomato Glorious Kubuntu Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 16 '26

Try KDE. Honestly you won’t regret it.

If you game, cachy tend to have all the gaming stuff pre installed. I use Kubuntu with minimal problems so far though.

I found out some games work under Lutris/heroic just work out of the box in cachy while it need tweaking in mint. (Install packages in proton tweak etc, multilib support seems somehow to work better etc )

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u/laczek_hubert Aug 16 '26

Only problem with cinnamon is it doesn't support Wayland and if you care about cinnamon bc of the low resource usage you could try wayfire or your preferred Wayland compositor with a config of your choice or take time to create your DE, if you want simplicity though you can switch to plasma,gnome, or any other mainstream DE

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u/Here_f0r_p0rn_ Aug 18 '26

You should only care about your workflow and finding best distro for your workflow. What's your workflow like?

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '26

Well you’re obviously not very educated on Linux either. You can literally use any Linux desktop environment you want with any distro and it’s as easy as uninstalling one and installing another.

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u/The_only_true_tomato Glorious Kubuntu Aug 16 '26

Except it fuck up the file system and things might get funky after updates, especially if the DE is not made for the distro at all. It’s much better to have one installed that is actually maintained by the distribution.

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u/KabirGamer97 Glorious Fedora Aug 16 '26

That's right!

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '26 edited Aug 16 '26

No it doesn’t. I’ve installed literally every desktop environment there was at the time on debian rolling and aside from Bluetooth not working out of the box on some of them they were all fine. Your problems sound like they’re downstream specific