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[–]Tums_is_Smut_bkwrds 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I've distro hopped for years. Generally my criteria was what ran best on the hardware I had at the time. The desktop was never that important since none of them were, frankly, outstanding. Once I got comfortable with their quirks they generally worked well enough to get the job done and that was all that was important. But my main PC was still Windows, because of games.

Then early this year I gave Pop!_OS a try on a whim. Five minutes and I was sold. It helped that 2022 is the year that gaming finally became a practical reality on Linux, but that's not limited to Pop. I can still dual boot to Windows if I need to, but I've only needed to 3 times so far.

Pop isn't perfect and there are some annoying design choices as a result of its Gnome heritage, but its a DE that is literally worth changing for.

[–]Optimus85 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I use Pop! OS too but Gnome has turned to shit and using it aggravates me. I decided to install KDE Plasma a while back and it's a better experience overall. XFCE is worth a look too if you want a more simplistic and less bloated DE. Although Thunar, the file manager, had its issues.

[–]chadwickofwv 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

KDE is awesome, but I can see why the extreme amount of options could confuse a normie. Also, yea, Thunar sucks. Install Dolphin instead.

[–]Optimus85 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's the Swiss pocket knife of desktop environments; highly customizable. It's smooth and less buggy than it was a while ago and Dolphin works great too. I really enjoy using it.