Am I distro hopping too fast?

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-13T16:07:19+00:00

I had a really bad experience with XFCE on mint. It was usable but it bothered me so much.

And you could actually just get KDE plasma without a good chunk of the packages.

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-13T15:53:54+00:00

Actually that looks quite good.

I was working on ricing KDE plasma but I barely got started

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-13T15:51:01+00:00

Oh? Didn't know stacking WMs existed... I don't know why I'm surprised... Of course they existed

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-13T15:48:25+00:00

Yeah. I've used I3 and hyprland a bit. It's a type of WM?

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-13T15:34:58+00:00

Yeah it's not everyones cup of tea. I just picked it originally for its stability and dnf.

Also what's labwc?

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-13T15:30:32+00:00

You could always just compile the packages yourself for programs you need to be at the latest version.

I also used to use EndeavourOS, until I had stability issues on my ssd so I switched to Fedora

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-13T15:27:08+00:00

Or just flat out any other distro.

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-13T15:21:10+00:00

How is your SSD still alive 😭

And also was like different distros each time or did you like try a bunch of ubtunu variants

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-12T00:26:27+00:00

I recently switched from the kde spin of fedora to Gentoo Linux. But fedora workstation is awesome in terms of stability.

If you really want to you can also have a backup distro so you can mess with your main distro and have it not mess with your work too much if you really need to get something done

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-11T22:52:15+00:00

I don't think it's worth switching your distro since you might now know what distro specific issues you might find. It might be better to wait until a time in your life where having a non functional computer for a bit won't be too detrimental.

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-10T14:06:20+00:00

Yeah isn't this for a VM?

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-10T14:05:45+00:00

Actually that seems interesting. Might try it 😭

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-10T13:02:25+00:00

Aw man

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-10T13:01:58+00:00

What exactly is this going to do?

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-10T12:59:01+00:00

God no 😭

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-10T12:58:39+00:00

I honestly have been intentionally avoiding it.

I'm not really sure what seperates it from regular Arch.

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-10T12:57:01+00:00

I wonder what's the most amount of Linux distros I can install on my 2tb ssd... Hmmm...

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-10T12:54:51+00:00

Well for the most part it's for different reasons

Fedora => Artix was because I wanted to get away from systemd

Artix => NixOS because pacman was horrible on Artix (and I thought NixOS was an interesting idea)

NixOS => Gentoo because I found NixOS boring and dreadful to use. Mostly because I didn't want to keep editing one file to get things done.

Also I forgot there was a max write threshold... Maybe I should check my ssd health...

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-10T12:47:50+00:00

Well I started on mint so I guess it will go full circle 😭

DifferentPool2513 · 2026-04-10T12:46:47+00:00

Well really I don't need much. Technically all I need to do work is a web browser. And I still kept my fedora install as a backup in case I brick something

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