Hello everyone, I need help to decide on a Linux Distribution to settle and finally stop distro hopping. I have quite some experience with Linux(1year Mint, a quarter year Arch, nixos, debian, manjaro, fedora, suse tumbleweed and kalpa…)I have been experimenting for now almost 3 years. Now I finally want to setlle but I just don’t know where. I like Nix’s shell but don’t like installing everything in five steps(with git because my brain can stand neither the dirty tree warning nor leaving out on the git push) and I don’t need the reproducibility. I like rolling so I don’t need to reinstall or do any major update, but even more appealing is low maintenance and stability in the sense of nothing unexpectedly breaking. I’ll use the computer as an daily driver mostly for programming & 3d design, university related work, streaming and also some gaming. Thank you for your answers. #linux #distrohopping. EDIT: I don’t want to have a company behind my distribution. And my specs: Nvidia RTX 4070, Amd Radeon 7 7840HS, 16GB of RAM

Conclusion: Thanks a lot for all of that feedback, I decided to go for Debian 13 Stable and might check out MX once.

The final conclusion :P: I will now install LMDE and either try to install KDE Plasma or just stick with Cinnamon. Its not as uncustomizable after all. And the flashbacks I got during the installation from me first stepping into Linux… …definetly the rabbit hole I should have fallen into, even though I can now never live a normal life again :/.

  • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I had never heard of polkit. I had left NixOS+Noctalia+Hyprland well over a month ago. It was continual permission-access popups that were clearly bugs and that it shouldn’t have had. Hopefully it’s better by now but I just like COSMIC more overall regardless.

    • Ostfriesentee@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

      I’ve become a heavy user of Noctalia and figured these issues out.

      I’ve been through these: CachyOS+Hyprland+Noctalia ↓ CachyOS+MangoWM+Noctalia ↓ CachyOS+Umbriel+Noctalia

      I honestly recommend Umbriel. It’s a nice mix of Niri and Hyprland and is very customizable. Also better integration with Noctalia.

      Anyway: The fixes are the same.

      sudo noctalia-greeter passwordless-sync enable “$USER”

      For passwordless theme syncing between shell and greeter. My setup also syncs the wallpaper to hyprlock via a Noctalia hook.

      If the keyring authorization thing shows up after login with Noctalia greeter, edit /etc/pam.d/greetd to include:

      auth optional pam_gnome_keyring.so

      in the auth section and

      session optional pam_gnome_keyring.so auto_start

      in the session section (obviously this requires gnome-keyring).

      That should fix all weird pop-ups. Been very happy.

      COSMIC I’ll have to check out. But I’ve been so invested in customizing my Noctalia/Umbriel setup it’s going to be hard to switch. I really like my look and feel right now.