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So been trying out Garuda Linux for a while now (my first distro), but feel ready to try another distro. Therefore looking for a distro that suits my preferred requirements, anyone has any tips?

  • Uses Wayland
  • Supports flatpak
  • ButterFS format
  • KDE Plasma
  • "Good for gaming"

Note: Got nothing negative about Garuda, I just want to explore the options out there :)---

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[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't laugh, hear me out...

Slackware current (rolling release)

Then switch to LTS version at the next release, which I'm thinking will happen before the end of the yeay.

It checks all of your boxes and will give you a different take on Linux computing.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think from Garuda to slackware is too large of a leap

[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I honestly don't know anything about Garuda. I don't have much meaningful experience with any distro besides slackware. I've had an empty 50gb distrohop partition for months. I was going to give vanilla arch btw a try to see what all the fuss is about, but I haven't gotten around to it.