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minus-squareHubertManne@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up42arrow-down1·9 months agosomeone who switches away from the distro’s default desktop environment is not a new user.
minus-squareBlack616Angel@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·9 months agoYes, but a lot of them have multiple DEs (Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu…) and sometimes the DE is specific to the distros (Mint).
minus-squareSatyrSack@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-29 months agoLinux Mint uses Cinnamon as the DE, which you can use with Fedora (and probably others). https://fedoraproject.org/spins/cinnamon/
minus-square_NoName_@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoYou can actually choose to download an Linux Mint iso with either Cinnamon, MATE, or Xfce, so you’re not exclusively locked into Cinnamon.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·9 months agoYou get to choose whatever in my distro’s installer
minus-squaretubaruco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoonly distro ive tried that had that was debian (and arch if you count a tty as an installer), which one do you use?
minus-squaretubaruco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoisnt nix installed in a similar way to arch?
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 months agoEndeavour OS offers these on install But the post is more about recommending a DE to start with/them picking one they like since it’s visual. And then you recommend a distro where that is default
someone who switches away from the distro’s default desktop environment is not a new user.
Yes, but a lot of them have multiple DEs (Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu…) and sometimes the DE is specific to the distros (Mint).
Linux Mint uses Cinnamon as the DE, which you can use with Fedora (and probably others).
https://fedoraproject.org/spins/cinnamon/
You can actually choose to download an Linux Mint iso with either Cinnamon, MATE, or Xfce, so you’re not exclusively locked into Cinnamon.
TIL
You get to choose whatever in my distro’s installer
only distro ive tried that had that was debian (and arch if you count a tty as an installer), which one do you use?
NixOS
isnt nix installed in a similar way to arch?
Endeavour OS offers these on install
But the post is more about recommending a DE to start with/them picking one they like since it’s visual. And then you recommend a distro where that is default