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This could also just be Ubuntu. So many distros are based on Ubuntu and it’s pretty clear that Canonical doesn’t really care about Ubuntu on the desktop. It’s

This could also just be Ubuntu. So many distros are based on Ubuntu and it’s pretty clear that Canonical doesn’t really care about Ubuntu on the desktop. It’s little more than a sales funnel for them to make sure people use Ubuntu servers as well, at this point.

GauntletWizard 4y ago
What is the best modern desktop distro? I am running Ubuntu on my newly-built "Gaming" linux box, and I am impressed with how far gaming on linux has come, but I am unimpressed with Ubuntu and Gnome Desktop.
- shrimp_emoji 4y ago
  I think Manjaro. Arch is amazing; the newest software often works the best; the rolling model gives you new hardware support the fastest; the AUR has all the software ever (from Minecraft to the OldSchool RuneScape launcher to SVP for video interpolation); the Arch wiki is the most detailed resource ever. But installing Arch is hard, and rarely there might be manual intervention. Enter Manjaro, which is easy to install, holds back packages for a very little while to preclude users dealing with any manual intervention breakage, has super-friendly forums (unlike Arch ;p), has an easy GUI for switching kernels and drivers, and yet has the AUR and can benefit from Arch wiki since it's Arch-based. In my experience, both Arch and Manjaro have worked way better than Ubuntu (in terms of freezes and crashes), which seemed deeply paradoxical. >I am unimpressed with Ubuntu and Gnome Desktop. GNOME 3 is a laptop/tablet DE. It barely supports multiple monitors, unlike KDE, which is foremost a *desktop* DE. Amazing panel (aka taskbar), multimonitoring is a first-class concern (you can game on one monitor while you have a panel with tray that can have your CPU/GPU temps and the time on the other), deeply customizable, and my favorite bit is that you can disable desktop composition in its settings. Why? Because that makes it buttery smooth, which extends to games. Try dragging a window around with your mouse on a >=120 Hz monitor with composition on and then off to see what I'm talking about. (And all you lose by turning it off is terminal transparency.) In GNOME, of course, doing this is impossible (or at least extremely esoteric; it's not a setting). GNOME and KDE are the two most polished DEs out there, but only one of them is a desktop DE. :p

GauntletWizard 4y ago

What is the best modern desktop distro? I am running Ubuntu on my newly-built "Gaming" linux box, and I am impressed with how far gaming on linux has come, but I am unimpressed with Ubuntu and Gnome Desktop.

shrimp_emoji 4y ago
I think Manjaro. Arch is amazing; the newest software often works the best; the rolling model gives you new hardware support the fastest; the AUR has all the software ever (from Minecraft to the OldSchool RuneScape launcher to SVP for video interpolation); the Arch wiki is the most detailed resource ever. But installing Arch is hard, and rarely there might be manual intervention. Enter Manjaro, which is easy to install, holds back packages for a very little while to preclude users dealing with any manual intervention breakage, has super-friendly forums (unlike Arch ;p), has an easy GUI for switching kernels and drivers, and yet has the AUR and can benefit from Arch wiki since it's Arch-based. In my experience, both Arch and Manjaro have worked way better than Ubuntu (in terms of freezes and crashes), which seemed deeply paradoxical. >I am unimpressed with Ubuntu and Gnome Desktop. GNOME 3 is a laptop/tablet DE. It barely supports multiple monitors, unlike KDE, which is foremost a *desktop* DE. Amazing panel (aka taskbar), multimonitoring is a first-class concern (you can game on one monitor while you have a panel with tray that can have your CPU/GPU temps and the time on the other), deeply customizable, and my favorite bit is that you can disable desktop composition in its settings. Why? Because that makes it buttery smooth, which extends to games. Try dragging a window around with your mouse on a >=120 Hz monitor with composition on and then off to see what I'm talking about. (And all you lose by turning it off is terminal transparency.) In GNOME, of course, doing this is impossible (or at least extremely esoteric; it's not a setting). GNOME and KDE are the two most polished DEs out there, but only one of them is a desktop DE. :p