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dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I think you’ll be in for a nice surprise.

Hopefully I don’t have to manually tweak ALSA configs for hours to get sound working any more :)

Any distros you’d recommend? I was just going to try Debian, but I’ve heard that Linux Mint is good too?

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CeeBee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Hopefully I don’t have to manually tweak ALSA configs

I hope you’re just kidding. Because we’ve moved past ALSA to PulseAudio and then again over to Pipewire. Pulse was a bit rough, but Pipewire is fantastic.

Any distros you’d recommend?

I guess it depends on what you’ve been using server side. It would be helpful to say in the same family of distros. If you’ve been using Debian/Ubuntu based, then Mint is a good choice. Pop!_OS is a good choice too.

My very strong recommendation for DE would be KDE Plasma. It’s not like it used to be. Plasma is one of the fastest desktops now and even competes with the lightest DEs for memory usage.

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- dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  hope you’re just kidding. Because we’ve moved past ALSA to PulseAudio and then again over to Pipewire.
  
  I am! It’s one of my last memories of trying to use Linux on my PC. PulseAudio was still a new thing that wasn’t widespread yet.
  
  guess it depends on what you’ve been using server side. It would be helpful to say in the same family of distros. If you’ve been using Debian/Ubuntu based, then Mint is a good choice
  
  I’ve been using Debian on servers since around the year 2000, so I’ll probably stick to Debian or something Debian-based.
  
  My very strong recommendation for DE would be KDE Plasma. It’s not like it used to be. Plasma is one of the fastest desktops now and even competes with the lightest DEs for memory usage.
  
  Wow! KDE used to be the slow, bloated desktop environment. I never used it because of how bloated it was. I used to run Xfce. Thanks for the update - I’ll definitely try it again.
  
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