You just said it yourself. I do like to tinker. I can install a distro in 15 minutes. I can fix my system. I do make backups. Why would I need or want an atomic distro again?

“rough start” is putting it mildly. 🤭

KDE.

My advice: try them all, then decide. They are all free. Most offer live systems. It will only cost you time, which will be well spent learning.

tl;dr: Break things and have fun.

jitsi?

Lightweight? I guess things have changed in the last 15+ years… I personally settled on Sayonara. Then I discovered Nuclear. Still undecided.

KDE has given me the desktop I need for the past few years. Hyprland isn’t a desktop environment, as far as I know.

Before KDE I used Cinnamon on Linux Mint. It was functional, but after many years I wanted a change.

Use whatever suits your needs. In my experience, KDE and Cinnamon are the most complete desktop environments without having to install extensions or extra software. Both are mature, have large communities behind them, and release incremental updates frequently. Those are my criteria for a good desktop environment.

And that’s why I don’t use flatpaks. Nothing like that has ever happened to me.

Maybe?

As other have said, a combination of Firefox PDF tool, PDF Arranger and Xournal++ is all I’ve ever needed. And Okular is nowadays my viewer of choice, which does a lot on its own, too.

Half supervillain is American enough.

KDE.

It would be easier to just try the live systems (booting from USB).

It looks like a placeholder image to me. :/ Those touchpads look pretty uncomfortable.

Changed to Cinnamon (Linux Mint) after GNOME 3 and Ubuntu’s Unity went bonkers, then changed to KDE Plasma some years ago.

I think KDE is constantly working to improve the desktop paradigm. GNOME tried to change the paradigm… I didn’t like what I saw. I’m too old to learn new tricks.

Can confirm. The UI alone is atrocious.

Project Borealis Prologue. Not patient at all.

But also Silent Hill 2 Enhance Edition.

When they’re ready.

How is this newsworthy… smh

It rhymes. In a bad way.