LMDE. And this is as someone who has used a ton of distro over the years and now just rolls that whenever asked. I prefer the Debian Edition; Mint feels hacky in comparison, almost like snaps and stuff have been ripped out to make the distro something it is not…
Repo/packaging: I try and do as little as possible to mess with custom packages - which is why I’ve ended up on Arch LMAE setup after really liking LMDE. yay and the AUR is a game changer.
UI: I’m running Cinnamon at 100%. Boring and works and nothing feels out of place. I’m old and grumpy and hate fixing shit, so this suits me. Maybe give it a stab. I will never buy a display that needs fractional scaling, for this very reason.
I find five different solutions … …config file is not where it should be or a package is not available
I feel this.
For photos: Rapid-Photo-Downloader to import of cards, Geeqie to cull, (both are in all repo’s I’ve used) - and I run Capture One in dual boot Windows (but I need to set up a Windows VM with photo folder passthrough and GPU passthrough) because nothing else compares, especially if you have an events worth of images to process. I’ve tried a ton and darktable is the best and it’s still terrible to use. Don’t get me wrong, you can get awesome results and it is very powerful, but I don’t want to spend hours on a single image.
It is annoying, as it’s the only thing that Linux (for me) does not have a comparable equivalent for.
I don’t buy shit based on a promise or expectation. I buy it based on what it is for me now. It’s the same reason I don’t pre-order games.
I found that a weird statement too. It’s literally based on a rapidly moving community distribution.
Yup I run LMDE on Desktop (or “LMAE” Arch) and Debian on servers since they made it annoying to rip out snaps. I’m not interested in making a distro something it is not, so just use something else.