I want a more stable distro, so I’m not considering the rolling release options (like manjaro and EndeavourOS). I’ve also heard that not many people like Ubuntu because of snaps, why is that?

edit: are rolling release distros stable enough (e.g. will it randomly crash/have weird issues?) and is it possible/easy to roll back to a previous version if there’s a breaking update

I’ve heard that Mint doesn’t play well with DEs that aren’t Cinnamon (or Mate/XFCE), is that still an issue? Also, do the benefits of Mint (not requiring the terminal for everything) vanish if you KDE Plasma or GNOME?

I wasn’t too familiar with Linux so didn’t know that you’re able to just change out the DE really easily on any distro.

I’m probably not going to have two DEs permanently installed together, I am hoping to make it easier to swap between the two to see which I prefer. Once I decide which one I like using I’ll likely uninstall the other

Ohh interesting. So I could simultaneously compare things like GNOME and KDE’s built-in software without repeatedly restarting. Nice.

Testing a bit more is probably a good idea.

Damn, you can just choose from the login manager? You don’t get ANYTHING like this on Windows! Crazy that you can just swap out the whole GUI of your OS like that

Nice, just learnt that pCloud also offers a Linux app! :D

I’ve decided to switch since nearly all the programs I use are either cross-platform (e.g. Inkscape) or have good Linux alternatives (e.g. Okular rather than SumatraPDF). The only hiccups I might get would be games, but I only really play a few retro games w/ emulators and just a couple games (the latter of which I’ve checked are all supported by Proton). Also, if I do run into issues with games, I can always just partition like 100GB for Windows and the rest for my distro of choice.

unfortunately could not fix my issue :(

just tried it both with sudo and as root, also tried it with /var/lib/radicale/collections. The error still occurs, and there’s a warning note that says that the directory doesn’t exist and is being created even though I’ve already created it with mkdir

ooh that seems really helpful, thanks :D

I’ll try that once I come home

I’ll try that, but I’m pretty sure I’ve done that already. I might be wrong though, thanks! (maybe I did the command wrong)

I tried installing an ISO and it black screened. weird.

Okay, so CasaOS is easier to set up (but uses more resources and I won’t learn sysadmin stuff) whereas using something like Debian is a bit harder to set up (but uses less resources and learn more!).

Think I might try CasaOS on my 11th gen laptop and plain Debian on my 6th gen laptop and see which I prefer

OHHH that’s why I couldn’t find out how to install it. Got it.

Ah got it. I’ve installed debian since yunohost had issues installing for whatever reason. Weird.

Writing down different commands on a note seems like a good idea. Thanks!

What kind of issues?

TrueNAS scale seems like the perfect option, the only downside is that my old laptops don’t meet the hardware requirements