r/DistroHopping

These days it's hell to theme your distro. You have to deal with 5 different toolkits: Qt 5,6 and GTK 2,3,4/Libadwaita. Granted, GTK2 and Qt5 are being phased out, but you still occasionally run into apps that use them. And even if we ignore GTK2, that still means you need themes for GTK 3, 4/Libadwaita and Kvantum. It's hard to enough to find themes consistent across all these, let alone ones you would actually like.

In addition, personally I am tired of theming my OS manually. One of the reasons I'm currently using a distro that comes with default Gnome theme and the corresponding adw-gtk3 pre-installed is that all I had to do was set up Kvantum manually with LibAdwaita theme. I don't love Adwaita, but what I love even less is spending hours customizing a newly-installed distro when I already have a lot of setting-up to do.

So, my question is: are there any distros that come with a pre-configured theme that covers all 5 toolkits?

Intel Pentium Silver N6000

16GB DDR4

256GB SSD

Intel UHD Graphics

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Please comment and give me your opinion

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I want to start using Linux because honestly Windows is making my laptop almost unusable. Out of the 4 GB of RAM it has, it usually consumes around 3.7 GB without doing practically anything, and the processor tends to stay at 90% or 100% constantly.

I know perfectly well that my hardware doesn't help much either lol. I have an HP 14-cf2xxx with an Intel Celeron N4020 and 4 GB of RAM. I'm not expecting miracles, I just want something lighter and more usable for everyday tasks.

I've been researching distributions on my own, but I still don't know which one would suit me best. I also saw that the Realtek RTL8723DE Wi-Fi chip supposedly causes quite a few problems on Linux, so that has me a bit hesitant.

I'm not a demanding user. I basically use the laptop to browse the Internet, watch videos, study, and occasionally play light games like Stardew Valley or Hollow Knight.

What distro would you recommend for a setup like this, and how problematic can the Wi-Fi situation be?

Out of sheer curiosity, how do people distrohop so quickly? I have so many things configured in my work desktop from dev environments, specialized packages, random sh scripts, down to preferences of specific color in my desktop UI. To get everything to match 100% of my needs, I'd need at least several days, if not a weeks, of tweaking and dealing with edge cases.

Many suggested using VMs, and it's been great to get a feel of what the new DE or package manager looks like, but it doesn't handle the edge cases of hardware compatibility, running niche scripts (cuda-baded) and just whether or not a specific game would work.

So yeah, commit a new distro requires days of consistent work. How does one distro hop so frequently without losing days if not weeks of work?

Laptop Specifications: Xiaomi Notebook Pro with Intel Core i5-11300H 11th Gen, 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD, and Intel Iris Xe Graphics.

Laptop Usage : Heavy web browsing with many tabs, coding/development work, and multitasking/productivity tasks.Media consumption like Netflix, YouTube, movies, music, and long daily usage around 6–10 hours.

My Preference: Stable daily-driver distro for heavy browsing, coding, media, and multitasking.

Good battery life with reliable sleep, suspend, resume, and fewer bugs. Premium polished UI with customization, but not at the cost of stability. I also want to now have a fix OS so will stick to it for a year or two..

Please suggest, I'll switch and forget.

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I have been using Linux for almost a year now, and I started with Omarchy, then bazzite and now I am using Kali for daily use (which is bad thing to do, hence Kali is unstable), but now I am considering switching to different distro and was wondering what are some distros that are considered niche or in other words, the people that use it are quite a few.

Hello,

I was using Linux for a few months and so far almost all distros that I tried failed me in some way (most of them had graphics problems, because I have a 50 series Nvidia card). I tried nobara, bazzite, opensuse, cachyos, fedora, kubuntu, manjaro, arch, endeavour and many more. Only one distro didn't have any problems with graphics, and only a few other problems: Manjaro. But manjaro also annoys me is some way. Is there any other Linux distro that offers comparable stability to Manjaro but works a bit different (other app installer, maybe not arch based)? Thanks in advance.

So I've used fedora for a few months but that was in dual boot with windows because of games but that was costing me a lot of storage

so i removed fedora cause i was using windows maximum of the time anyways

but i wanna go back to linux but also wanna try something new so i was thinking of completely switching to catchyOS

so i wanna know how good it is for daily driving

i just play games and also for programming and development

if there are any other suggestions ( like any other os) please feel free to drop them

I'm currently on endeavour os with the I3wm, I'm getting bored and I'm going to install LFS to learn more about the kernel and how distros are built in general. What distro should I use after? I'm not looking for a daily driver just something that's interesting and difficult enough to entertain me and make me feel smart.

Need distro recommendation. My requirements:

-No spyware/telemetry/etc - fine with telemetry that is not spying on me

-No bloatware/adware

-Stable - don't want to be not able to logon after some update or anything

-For daily use (just simple thing like browser, music, movies, photos)

-Don't want to spend too much time on making things work. Prefer most of things to work right away. Spending some hours is still fine.

I had some Linux experience and I'm tech guy. Just don't want to waste too much time.

Hardware is Intel 8gen, SSD, 16GB RAM. Not going to play games.

Please suggest me an ironed out Linux Distro. I would like to move away from WIndows.

I use my PC for home office to run apps like Office, Notes, Citrix, PyCharm, NetBeans
Also, i would like to have the distro support Blender as a hobby.

At most of the times i connect my PC to an external 2k monitor

PC Configs: Lenovo Thinkpad E14s Intel 258v 32gb RAM and 1tb Harddisk

I have a friend who enjoys going to porn sites.

I’m getting ready to set up a computer for him with Linux. what would be a good way to protect his computer from those questionable sites?

I’m constantly getting calls from him to save his windows machine from those sites and we have a bit warden subscription account running on it.

Hi, I have a potentially unpopular opinion (I haven't seen it discussed a lot) and want to check if you feel the same.

To be honest, my hopping times are gone, I've been a happy user of Fedora Workstation for the last few years, but I also had a habit of reinstalling the system for every new release.

One of the consequences that I noticed is that I became almost completely independent from "software providers". For example, I can use almost every browser, because I keep my passwords in Bitwarden and my bookmarks in Raindrop. I have all my notes in Google Keep and Obsidian (with Syncthing to home server) and can access them from every device. My documents live in Google Drive/NAS. It looks similar in almost every other field.

This approach also helped me a lot during my transition from Android to Apple and vice versa.

The negative side of this approach is that I can miss really cool native features from the OS.

What do you think? Are you the same or you try to adapt as much native software as possible? What is your experience?

P.S. sorry for potential errors, I'm not native in English