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    6 days ago

    Yep. I was using Plasma on Mint for a while but the consensus was you’re best off using a DE officially supported by the distro.

    Never encountered any issues personally up to that point, but seemed to be the majority opinion when I researched it.

    But my most recent switch was from Endeavour, so made much more sense to install Debian 13 than to Install Mint and then immediately switch DE.

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        4 days ago

        Well, context is everything. Obviously there’s no single best distro for all use cases.

        This is a 13 year old MacBook Pro, with ancient Linux-hating hybrid Nvidia/Intel graphics that needs an NVRAM modification and vga_switcheroo to do things like video acceleration properly.

        And not my main computer, just for learning Linux and playing some old games.

        So Endeavour worked great, but seemed like ultimately a computer that old is probably best off with stability and minimal updates rather than being bleeding-edge and subjecting it to gigabytes of updates each week.