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Just being proactive. Not sure I like what Clem did with Cinnamon. If the upgrade goes as poorly this weekend as I think it will, I may need to either fiddle fuck with a new front end, or just do a full reinstall. I'm not hindered by Nvidia anymore, so all distros are on the table. Any particular suggestions, or distros you've tried recently and know to avoid?

Just being proactive. Not sure I like what Clem did with Cinnamon. If the upgrade goes as poorly this weekend as I think it will, I may need to either fiddle fuck with a new front end, or just do a full reinstall. I'm not hindered by Nvidia anymore, so all distros are on the table. Any particular suggestions, or distros you've tried recently and know to avoid?
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Newer hardware. 5800x and a 7700xt. So I need something that can supply a kernel above 6.12. not a huge issue usually. Game a ton, primary use for the rig.

Would PREFER to avoid an arch base because of the AUR hacks and issues they've had as of late. Grown not to trust it. I don't really want to leave Mint, but if I can't fix the UI issue...well, I'm tired of Mint breaking every time I upgrade the fucking thing.

Was thinking Fedora or a testing based Debian. Was also thinking of looking into Budgie for DE, because I'm not a fan of gnome or KDE

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In that case, check out Bazzite but make sure to select the one that offers a full proper desktop. Its a pretty go-to distro for many gamers (I am going to be installing it on one of those mining rigs when I get the bios re-flashed). It is a fedora base but people seem to like it and it has good AMD support.

I will note that I have never ran this distro before so it will be "new to me" but its still just fedora under the hood so it's not really new.

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Haven't you said you've had issues with Fedora, historically?

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I have, it used to be a PITA to get steam to work but a lot of people have put a lot of work into it since then. Since this spin is designed around desktop+gaming I have a feeling it will probably be fine.

I won't know until I have a system running it. Maybe this weekend at best but I need some custom power cables that I will either have to make or see if I can order them so it could be longer. These little mining rigs have non-standard stuff so its kind of annoying.