If this is in the wrong community let me know, but I have been away from linux for a little while now, and I have decided to come back to it. I am trying to figure out what Distro and Desktop environment I should use.
I used to use Ubuntu and, Ubuntu based Distributions, though for various reasons I had bad experiences with the ones based down stream of Ubuntu, I have also heard that Ubuntu is no longer nearly as good as they where before. As for desktop Experences, I never really liked Gnome. That being said from what I can tell there has been quite a bit that has changed sense I left, and any recommendations would be much appreciated.
I use Linux Mint Cinnamon. I know there’s probably better choices, but it works for me with little complaints.
I have to kill pulseaudio (pulseaudio -k) to fix an audio bug every so often.
My system freezes if it’s left idol all day while I’m at work requiring a hard reset.
I had to delete a file at one point in order to set the system resolution to 1080. My monitor is 4k. The GUI doesn’t know how to deal with that so everything is really tiny unless you do that.
A major bug I ran into a while back was when my kernel partition overflowed. It broke everything. I needed to seek advanced help from the forum. I have the solution saved in a file somewhere. Basically in order to delete a file Linux (or at least that particular partition) needs to create a temporary file. If there isn’t space to create a temporary file then it can’t delete anything.
The built in repositories are woefully out of date. So you need to learn how to add repos preferably directly from the developers.
Otherwise my experience with Mint over the past 6 or so years (three generations of the OS) have been good. Nothing’s perfect. There are usually easy solutions to any problem as long as you’re aware of that solution. Delete this one file or use this one command is super simple as long as you’re aware of it.