Dillema from Linux Distros
I have an ASUS Laptop with Intel Celeron N3350 and a 4GB of ram with a 120gb SSD. I first stumble apon Linux when LTT was doing a video about PopOS. PopOS is my first ever distro. After some time, i started hopping from one Linux distro to another.
These are Linux Distro's i have tried, use for a bit, and reinstalled from for the past month :
- Ubuntu (6 Hours) (2x)
- Lubuntu (2 Hours) (2x)
- Kubuntu (1 Hour)
- Debian (30 minutes up to 5 Hours) (4x)
- Zorin OS (2 Days)
- PopOS! (4 Hours)
- Steam OS (40 Minutes)
- Arch Linux (1 Day)
- NixOS (45 Minutes)
- Elementary OS (2 Days) (2x)
- Red Hat Linux (2 Days)
- Linux Mint XFCE (1 Day) (3x)
- LMDE (30 Minutes)
- Alpine Linux (1 Day)
- PostmarketOS (5 Hour)
- Void Linux (2 Days)
- CachyOS (1 Hour)
- OpenSUSE (1 Hour)
- Deepin (1 Hour)
- Fedora Workstation (3 Days) (6x)
- Fedora KDE (1 Hour) (2x)
- AntiX (1 Hour)
- Chrome OS Flex (3 Days) (4x)
- Q4OS Trinity (Currently, but might hop again)
With some DE or WM that i switched to :
- Gnome (12x)
- KDE Plasma (6x)
- XFCE (8x)
- Cinnamon (2x)
- LXQT (3x)
- Cosmic
- Pantheon
- i3
- Sway
- Hyprland
- And many more...
You maybe wondering, why did i go for all the trouble of wiping the SSD and instialling a new distro on my laptop just to wipe it again for a new distro or coming back to certain distribution (like Fedora Workstation or Chrome OS Flex)
Well... Its quite complicated. For the past months i was sailing and searching for the best distribution with these 4 requirements and specific use cases :
- I want to do heavy Browsing (mainly i do graphic design in Figma, Photopea, or Canva) with 4-5 tabs open for Pinterest, YouTube, Browser Games or Googling.
- I don't like Inconsistent, Cluttered and Crowded Desktop Environment or Window Manager.
- I just needed things to work and not stutter or lagging or glitching when i have to do important work at limited time.
- Sometimes i have to use real and native application like Gimp, Krita, Kdenlive, or anything else.
- I don't like configuring my Distro too much to meet my optimal use.
With those Distros, it feels like i cannot achive 4 of them without ditching my Celeron Laptop for a Used good and sexy "Thinkpad" which i don't have the money right now.
What should i do right now?