Personally, I don't think anyone new to Linux at this point, who isn't tech-minded, should be pointed to an X11 environment. So until Mint devs have ported Muffin into a Wayland compositor, I wouldn't recommend it. They're used to a shiny experience visually, so I'd go with Plasma 6 running on Fedora or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

The difference from Obtanium seems to be that it presents an app-store front end, so you can browse and search for packages. Obtanium requires manual setup for each repo you want to add.

You can install Cinnamon on Arch though.

Only tangentially related, but this post made me think about how everyone historically sees the day when Windows stopped being built on top of DOS as an advancement. If that ever happened on Linux, where there was no longer a fully functional base Linux system without graphical system libraries, my entire reality would shatter beneath my feet.

I use a Beelink SER5, but that's because I also plan to set it up to be a retro game console, in addition to streaming.

I also just verified it worked on my Arch install. But running the mitigation command and rebooting effectively blocked it, and I'm on the Arch LTS kernel. I think the disabled modules are related to IPSec, which most desktop users don't really need.

sudo apt upgrade -U -y

Don't get me wrong, I used Mint for a year, it's what helped me quit macOS for good. It's a great distro, where you don't have to delve into advanced Linux topics just to get things working, which is what kept me as just a visitor to Linux for years prior. But once I did get the hang of Linux, I was drawn to Arch's philosophy of installing only what you want (* systemd being the glaring exception). Then I got converted to tiling WMs. So now there's very little about LMDE that appeals to me. I'd still recommend it to anyone though.

I know in zsh, fish, and nushell, you can press a key combo to jump into a text editor of your choice. You write your command there, with all the power and shortcuts in emacs, vim, nano (whatever you like to use). Then you save and exit, and it appears in your command line, ready to execute.

Ivan Cukic has ported the Bismuth window decoration to Plasma 6.

https://github.com/ivan-cukic/kwin6-bismuth-decoration

DankMaterialShell's screenlocker is the only one I know that has the normal input box. But I don't know if there is a way to install/use it standalone. I think you have to pull in the entire dms-shell package. That pulls in quickshell and it's dependencies at the very least.

DankMaterialShell

Currently have 12 ISOs, 25 GB worth. Same reason, trying them out in a VM and just keep them around.

Yeah, if you have spotty internet service or are using a minimal data plan, that can be an important deciding factor. You can leave an Arch system without updating too, as long as you don't install a new package.

I don't know if LVM acts the same as btrfs, but in order for my root snapshots to work, I couldn't have the swapfile directly in /. It has to be made in /swap/swapfile to work. Just something to be aware of.

I believe Rocky Linux is also a free clone of RHEL.

In X11 you can just use 'exec app-name' and it will replace the terminal window with the app. In Wayland, I got it to work with this:

setsid app-name & disown
sleep 1
exit

Without the 'sleep 1', it exits the terminal too quickly for the app to launch, at least when I tried it.

*Edit: In order for it to work as a script, you still need to type exec first. Or, in my case, I aliased "open-app" to "exec open-app".

I tried TWM for a hot minute a couple years ago, thinking I'd be so cool for having the absolute minimal GUI possible. But the config syntax was impenetrable for me. I do still miss the left click root menu concept. I wish wl-roots compositors would implement that.

I did. No idea how or why, though.

I just made the switch from Hyprland to Mango today, and it has everything Hyprland had and more, and no transphobia that I know of!

I look at it more like Artix exists to solve the one "problem" with Arch. As much as Arch is generally about user choice, the one thing it decided to be opinionated about was the mandatory use of systemd. Artix tries to follow Arch as closely as possible while providing the alternate init systems. I think that's pretty cool, even if their hatred of systemd is childish.