Ubuntu is great but uses snaps and adds other canonical bits. Linux Mint is essentially perfect but does not come with gnome desktop. Is there a ubuntu based distro that is essentially like linux mint but offers gnome as a desktop?

  • ExLisper@linux.community
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy is the first place I heard about changing distro to change DE. Just install the other DE.

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      1 year ago

      It doesn’t always go well, especially with beginners, I’ve tried Plasma on Ubuntu and decided to go back to gnome, spent whole lot of time trying to purge all the Plasma bloat but couldn’t

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        1 year ago

        That is a reasonable comment. There is so much overlap between cinnamon and GNOME though that I doubt it is an issue.

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        1 year ago

        If you use the nala apt frontend, it comes with a history command like Fedora. Really useful for undoing specific changes.

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      There’s usually some kind of integration between the DE and the underlying system that isn’t replicated by installing the DE without a bunch of configuration. But yeah, the line is definitely blurred nowadays.