I am switching out distros on my laptop - the only machine I can use for two weeks - because 19.whatever is the one that plays more games.
I am on LMDE3 normally, except all my gaming rigs are packed up and this laptop is literally the only thing I can use, after water leaked in and destroyed my studio. Nothing was destroyed, but the space is unusable and likely to leak again. The only thing I am willing to keep down here until I move is this cheap laptop.
So because water destroyed my environment, I am installing Linux Mint 19.2 Xfce edition.
What is the strangest reason you ever switched a linux distribution?
Smallest/most obscure reason you've ever changed distros?
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Smallest/most obscure reason you've ever changed distros?
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Re: Smallest/most obscure reason you've ever changed distros?
Dunno, I think that's going to be tough to beat.
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Re: Smallest/most obscure reason you've ever changed distros?
A couple of cases that come to mind.... I didn't (and still don't) really like the green theme of Mint, and rather than spending the time needed to make Mint look like something else i installed PepperMint. All the same tools I'm used to with a better (to my eyes) color scheme. But for some reason, I don't seem to stay with Peppermint for long (having installed it a couple of times in the past) until I move on to something else. In this case it was MX-17.
On another occasion some years ago, the SSD in my laptop that was running AntiX died, and wanting to try something different, I install Linux Mint, and stuck with it.
On another occasion some years ago, the SSD in my laptop that was running AntiX died, and wanting to try something different, I install Linux Mint, and stuck with it.
Re: Smallest/most obscure reason you've ever changed distros?
Obscure reason. Those dots on ubuntu. OMG THE DOTS.
Re: Smallest/most obscure reason you've ever changed distros?
Fedora - spent less time with it then it took to install - why ? ? ? . . . . . . no reason, just did not "feel" right.
Re: Smallest/most obscure reason you've ever changed distros?
Not the smallest reason, but when
Unity desktop
came to Ubuntu, I got a strong reason to abandon Ubuntu. Re: Smallest/most obscure reason you've ever changed distros?
Same reason as administrollaattori
Re: Smallest/most obscure reason you've ever changed distros?
Yeah Unity and Gnome are quite beneath me..... for tablets Unity could be great (neva actually tried it mind you) but gnome is becoming dumber by the year.