oh wow! I dragged my feet for fucking ages over getting rid of Mint and installing some, any, other fucking distro because doing it is a hassle, but using Ubuntu 22.10 is going to get me to the point of nuking it with extreme prejudice in about a week!

utter fucking dogshit distro, I haven't had such a bad out-of-the-box experience with a linux desktop in...a decade? Longer?


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I'm feeling extremely sceptical of any of the *buntus right now; I've got this configured close to the Cinnamon desktop setup I had on Mint and, for one thing, it's just noticeably slow. Like, the only thing I have open is a single file browser window, I right-click on something, and I have to wait 2-3 seconds for the menu. A week ago, on the originally Ubuntu-based Mint, on the same machine, running a comparable kernel, I just didn't.

idek how they screwed this so badly!

I know I'm a little late, but I'm going to recommend MX Linux. Debian stable base with sensible defaults, the default init system is SysVinit but SystemD is installed and easy to switch to if you prefer. The MX team packages more current versions of a bunch of software than Debian but keeps it in a separate repo so you have the option to just use standard Debian packages if you prefer. I think the only (official) DE options are XFCE & Plasma, if that matters to you.