What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

case_when@feddit.uk to Linux@lemmy.ml – 239 points –

I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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PopOS and Ubuntu - really just found that I don't like gnome. Nothing against it, I know some people love it but it is not for me. This would likely apply to any gnome distro, but those were the two I tried and immediately moved on.

Honorable mention: Manjaro because "it just breaks™" but it wasn't something I noticed immediately and initially liked the os...

Manjaro made me lose some hairs in frustration... Not for me.

Yea.... That's where my hair went... It was Manjaro's fault... 😅

You are aware that you can have multiple DEs installed at once, right? Also many distros have multiple different choices for the default DE. I haven't used it for probably over a decade, but I'm sure Kubuntu, the KDE version of Ubuntu, still exists.

I am aware the DE can be changed, but it was just an honest answer to OP's question. I downloaded like 8 different distros and put them on flash drives and tried them all out and that was what caused me to move on. I didn't have kubuntu downloaded to try, probably because canonical seems to treat them as entirely different distros.

ie, some distros have the DE options when looking at the download page or have you choose during the live boot which to use and include multiple in one iso. Ubuntu makes no mention of those separate downloads unless you explore their site a bit further than the download page. It's a minor difference but makes a difference when you're grabbing a handful of isos to try out, you might miss it and assume the one iso has all the options available when it doesn't, or that it is the only option they provide.

As for PopOS I actually did look into changing to KDE and the popular wisdom at the time on message boards was that changing to KDE would possibly or likely undo most of the benefits of the tweaks and changes system 76 made. I don't have any idea if that is even true, just what came up when searching a few years back.

I get your reasoning, a lot of "re-spins" are hidden away on many distros download pages, but saying something like "I don't like Ubuntu because it uses Gnome" is like saying "I don't like Fords because they come with radios".

Regarding PopOS it probably is true because it probably all GUI specific things setup for new users, anything system level wouldn't be changed.

Yea, it's definitely not a good reason to not like Ubuntu. I really never used Ubuntu enough to make a fair opinion of it.