On mint for a while now, people usually call mint a newbie distro, any reason to "upgrade" to a different distro? (lemmy.world)

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Hi, how's it going? I've been daily driving mint with i3 for a while now, (takes like 500mb idle ram) but I always hear mint being called a newbie distro, I know arch is harder to set up and more customizable for example, but overall im wondering, in which cases one would go from mint to another distro? what can make other distros "better" than mint? i'll end up using a window manager (i3 or if thats not availible some other lightweight one) so differences in desktop environments i dont really care that much about

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[-] bertlewirth@lemy.lol 1 points 2 days ago

Just a warning, installing too many WMs or DEs can cause….. issues. Two will probably be fine, but before you go wild and install all of them, just be wary as it can cause conflicts between apps and shit. So yeah, just be wary.

[-] JTode@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

On Debian I have freely installed Gnome, KDE, and one or the other of the LX ones, and had no perceptible problems.

However, I just tried to shortcut installing KDE on a vanilla Ubuntu, and boy, they don't handle that well.

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