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Ive been seriously looking into making the switch. After some reading I decided Mint would be the easiest transition and downloaded the ISO to try it out with a USB boot. Im sure its a fluke, but since I have dual monitors the display was messed up and whenever I tried to fix it the entire GUI went away on both monitors and wouldn’t recover. I had to force power off the machine and ive been hesitant since then to make the actual switch. Id hate to brick my machine right off the bat, just trying to swap display sources.

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PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Please give it another go. I think you’re right, thrt was a fluke.

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accideath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’ve heard that happen with mint before. Try a bit more modern distro like fedora or openSUSE maybe?

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Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Mint is the one everyone touts, but mint is pretty shit tbh. Check out Zorin OS. I have a funky triple display setup and it handled it like a champ. Also UX/UI on Zorin is fantastic. There is GUI for everything.

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Lycist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I had a bit of trouble like that too… Tried Ubuntu and my 2nd display would have static bursts going through the middle horizontally. Couldn’t figure out a fix, tried out Fedora and had no problems.

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- Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  As a long time Fedora user, it’s difficult to convince other Linux users of how reliable it is. I’ve used it on multiple computers for I think about a decade and I’ve rarely had problems, certainly fewer than I had with Windows.
  
  Last week I finally parted with standard Fedora to try out an immutable version, right now it’s Bazzite… I’ve got to say it’s very cool, for some things it may be better for beginners, but for most I’d say it’s better to stick to the normal ones.
  
  I think it’s better with KDE, though, especially if you’ve got multiple monitors with different pixel densities.
  
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  - Lycist@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I had some gaming issues on Gnome, the mouse wouldn’t lock to my main window and it caused all kinds of problems.
    
    Could not find a fix, swapped to KDE Plasma and the issue was gone, I’ve been liking KDE a lot more since, haha.
    
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    Damage@feddit.it ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I flip flopped a bit over the years on my laptop, right now I’m on KDE as I feel it’s the better DE at this time.
    
    On the desktop I’d always go with KDE, no question.
    
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