mint cinnamon. your experience sounds a lot like mine whenever i try any other distro. mint is the best.

afterburner. i’m unable to oc my nvidia gpu :(

if it ran the test again, I’d say yes. but if it just reloads the result page, doesn’t mean anything

its ok if your fingerprint changes on every browser startup

i have tried like 100 different repacks and it’s impossible to install these

i got it to draw this, made me pretty happy

for me its about how easily the media is accessible. and i like to rewatch shows, i need them to not disappear

it’s not even about the money to me, if i was a billionaire i would still pirate. i would actually pirate way more because i could afford more hard drives

can alsamixer achieve this? i managed to adjust my soundcards gain with it

<1080p screens are still a thing in new laptops. took a quick look at my local electronics store and found some with 1600x900. but most are indeed at least fhd.

well, cinnamon works great on mint and fedora, and i have had less (none) gpu related issues on mint than i did even on windows. kde wouldn’t play nice with my old pc components either and gpu is the only thing that i kept, so i would suspect it’s some weirdness between my gpu and kde.

and too bad i can’t go with amd because i need hdmi 2.1

well yeah i tried ubuntu a couple years back and i remember having some issues with it too.

weird thing is that mint has never had any issues even though it’s based on ubuntu. not even nvidia related issues.

i know i’ll get downvoted but this was my experience last time i tried kde a few weeks ago (kubuntu and fedora kde):

• cool animations but stuttery as hell

• browser randomly consuming 10% of cpu, making everything else slow as if it was using 100% (tested: firefox, librewolf, floorp, brave)

• programs refusing to install

• programs refusing to open

• editing the taskbar often resulted in all the items going on top of each other, i couldn’t move them until i rebooted. couldn’t find an option to reset the whole thing

• i put cpu and gpu temps in the system monitor and it always borked after it had been closed a few minutes

• kded5 or something like that constantly popped up wanting to create a new wallet. couldn’t figure out how to disable. guides pointed to a configuration file that didn’t exist on my system

idk if it’s an nvidia thing but none of these happen on other DEs

personally i find gnome to be kinda weird to use and kde has been so completely crippled with bugs and performance issues every time i have given it a shot (may be a skill issue on my end), that i still have to vote for gnome.

cinnamon ftw.

so your wife likes bbc (big black cursor)

no idea, i can’t get any other distros to work properly

you can run sw 2022 and 2023 in some distros. https://github.com/cryinkfly/SOLIDWORKS-for-Linux

doesn’t work in mint tho, i tried.

i have been using mint (cinnamon) too for like a year and a half. every now and then i try another distro and a few more, but i always land back where i started. it even looks pretty with the “sweet dark v40” gtk theme.

mint cinnamon because on my system it has no major issues and everything is easy to configure. i don’t have a lot of spare time so i can’t spend hours or even days troubleshooting why something won’t install or run. most other distros have been annoyingly buggy or too difficult to set up.

accurate. that’s me.