Looking into hopping onto a different distro - looking at going to RebornOS or MX. Mint is giving me some odd vibes as of late. Not sure if it’s me wanting to go pure Debian or me wanting away from SystemD.
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You can do both in MX or Devuan or Peppermint/Devuan or antiX
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Care to expand on that comment, as a mint user I dont have any issues or problems but only do basic stuff.
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Another Mint user. What’s wrong with Linux Mint? A lot of people like to Distro hop for various reasons, but it is the first time I hear of the reason of “bad vibes”.
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Congratulations!
You’ll find flaws with every distribution you try. Every three months you’ll go to a different one, because for the next ten years you won’t be satisfied.
I’m talking from experience.
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I wasn’t hopping that much, but yeah, I remember…
Finally settling on Debian. 
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I agree. For some people it’s an endless journey; they never get what they want, maybe they even don’t know it. But finally they can tell that they tried $LINUX_OS.
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Maybe I have to append that there is nothing wrong with continuously trying something else. It might be a matter of taste (and energy).
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Happy that others do so I can read about them without the need to go down that road (well travelled)
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One needs a stable base distro, and a place to experiment.
I rotate my work around 3 main distros in a multiboot setup. Each distro is dedicated to a particular sort of work eg I use Void for VM’s and containers, Debian for image processing, and MX for general email etc.
That means each distro is simple in terms of packages.
That is not quite distro hopping, but I dont rule out changing one of my main distros.
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I remember @Moka_Noctis showing up with Tintero. I wonder how much time they’ll spend using that if they’re distrohopping and figuring out whether the next distribution is the right thing for them.
That’s what happened to me. I was spending ages figuring out whether the next distribution was the one that would make me happy.
Well, we can only speculate as to what the “bad vibes” are. I hope they find the one true distro quickly 
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Been there myself. Distro Hopping is a nightmare. Looking for something that isn’t there… Comparing each one with the one before, this one does this, this one does that. Turns your whole computing life upside down, topsy turvey, inside out. Then when you think you’ve found the one Distro that you decide to stick with, something else crops up, that was not intentional, but you see a new release of Linux Mint or Ubuntu that you just have to try and it works so well, that you again make the decision to stick with it, then a few weeks down the line, you’re Hopping with a capital H again. Then panic kicks in, because you need to go back to the original Distro that done everything you asked it to do, but have Hopped so much, that you cannot remember which one it was, let alone the environment. Yes been there many times.
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The best option is to stick with Linux Mint. Yes, it has systemd. Yes, it’s Ubuntu based. No, it hasn’t got snaps. No, it doesn’t do all the inane things Canonical does with Ubuntu.
Linux Mint is, in the end, Debian based; so any .deb files you obtain from the wild can easily be installed and managed. It’s also Ubuntu based, which means it has better driver support than most other Linux distributions. Then there’s also the PPAs, which is a really nice source of packages which are not included in the distribution.
Finally, there’s Cinnamon. It’s a boring DE, exactly what the doctor ordered; it never changes. Sure features get added from time to time, but the basic thing stays the same. A real pro for me. I hate DEs which constantly renovate.
There are not many distributions which provide the stability Linux Mint provides, along with the driver support, the convenience, and support for software found in the wild.
For me it’ll be LM for the foreseeable future.
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My base distro is Mint. I am not comfortable with VM yet but like multi boot. So I have a “guest” partition that I can install a Linux distro to try out or leave to play with. Current guest is MX on the laptop and Linux Lite on the desktop. I enjoy trying both of them.
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Same here. I’ll never get the point for improving something that is already close to perfect.
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Have you considered what specifically is bothering you about Mint? Is it the systemd integration, the package manager, or something else entirely?
If you’re feeling adventurous, RebornOS and MX Linux are both great options to explore. But if you’re looking for a more Debian-like experience, you might want to consider trying out a pure Debian install instead of jumping ship to another distro.
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That is the way to break the distro hopping cycle.
Make space for more than one distro… disk space is cheap today… use it
When I do an upgrade of a non rolling distro, I install to a fresh partition, and operate the old and new releases side by side for several months … disk space is cheap … use it
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What annoys me about Mint is that it overdoes the hand holding, and in the process makes decisions for me that I would rather make myself.
For example , when I installed Mint, it started Timeshift, which found an unused partition on one of my disks, and started writing snapshots to it. … I did not like that.
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I would keep the Mint on your SSD and make another partition / add another disk and dual boot with any distro you feel you’d like to test. Or use VM like Qemu. When I got frustrated on Ubuntu I did bare metal installs to my workstation but kept my laptop Ubuntu. It took few years to find suitable OS. And I am still open for new ones but at this point I think I’ll stay for a while.
You’ll learn the different ways of thinking behind the Linux OSes (or how the devs behind the OS think the system should run) when you test them. And you can always go back to square 1
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Exactly what Howard and I have been advocating.
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