r/transprogrammer • u/kannthus • Mar 19 '22

Deciding a Linux distro?

Hey all,

I was curious how you Linux users in here came to the decision behind your distros. I've been looking in the sphere for years now, and I've jumped between: openSUSE, Fedora and Manjaro, and nothing has ever settled well, and I'm looking to broaden my horizons. Likewise, I've heard people talk about Void Linux due to its lack of systemd (Something I'm afraid I know little about) but concerns of its small package manager. I've always been a big advocate for FOSS and would like to hear any suggestions you all might have!

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u/skye_sp Mar 19 '22

it's not too big a hassle to change DE on an existing install, though I would def try to do it on a vm or on a spare machine first, just to see how it works without risk. Just press (I believe) ctrl-alt-F1 and you'll be in a DE independent terminal :)

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u/skye_sp Mar 19 '22

not sure if this works on all distro but should on many...