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.

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…

[image] ihasama: 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 Exactly what Howard and I have been advocating.

[image] Neville Jackson: 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. Agree, I would not like that either. Fortunately, I have not had that experience with Mint.

mint was the only distro at the time i had on USB. I intended to dual boot this with windows but that screwed up , so i on mint. I got a mini nuc i am about to set up and may put MX or Red hat on it - this is mainly for work. I heavily use AI for grammar and formatting

There is this cure for distro hopping Use Gentoo Linux… you can build any distro you want with that… even ones that do not exist as a download. You do need some linux experience, and an understanding of compiling, before trying a Gentoo install.

[image] nevj: overdoes the hand holding For a meal user conversion from windows or apple, this is ideal, no thought process needed, imagine your first sight is command line ? So start with a look and feel good, continue just to use the computer to go about your day to day life, just like you…

That’s a good idea! Distrohopper myself here. At the start, I just was like “systemd is the best, I love it, other inits are bad”. I was wrong. When I learned about Devuan, I tried it in a VM with 1GB RAM and 1 CPU core. I was surprised that it booted even faster than my regular system with 16 resp.…

[image] George: systemd is not bad, but very bloated and slow. Well, I tend to disagree. I’ve seen its unit files: they’re a bad thing. When runit does the exact same thing in two lines (per daemon), why does systemd need 50 lines to do the exact same thing, with an arcane syntax to top thing…

[image] Paul: So start with a look and feel good, continue just to use the computer to go about your day to day life, just like your phone. But for the more experianced you can still step out of the box and do your own thing. Yeah I appreciate that Mint is a good starter for Linux novices. …

[image] nevj: Use Gentoo Linux I have Gentoo running on 3 different computers!!! The ultimate “build-your-own-linux” is linuxfromscratch!!!

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