I’m pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?
Edit: i dont wanna distro hop people cool your jets, i just wanna look around cos i find it neat :3
Rhino-Linux for rolling release Ubuntu-based. I never tried it myself as I’m not into Ubuntu much. I reckon it has UI for installs, so I’d recommend it to any non-technical person.
ZorinOS was my go-to recommendation due to it looking the most polished out of all distros I’ve seen, but I cannot recommend non-rolling-release as I don’t believe anyone should ever need to re-install the system regularly like this when it’s clearly not needed.
EndeavoursOS is terminal centric and the most easy to use distro I’ve had. I’d recommend it to anyone who is ok with no UI.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed was generally a weird experience. It has a UI, but it feels like a terminal with UI elements. I used to recommend it, but I don’t feel like it’s actually good tbh.
I stopped hopping thanks to EndeavoursOS. NixOS tempts with different folder structure, but I like things just working, so I think I’m gonna stay.
EndeavourOS has a UI of course ( currently defaults to KDE but there are many DE choices ). It even has a graphical installer.
Perhaps what you meant is that package management is text based by default.
If you really have to have GUI package management on EOS, yay -S octopi or yay -S pamac-gtk are pretty easy to type ( installation of GUI package managers ).