this is the way

xubuntu. stable and apps are reasonably up to date. i’ll probably switch to mint with the whole snaps thing though. fedora is the one distro i never tried in my distro hopping phase though so…

ahh thanks, i was wondering just how “minimal” minimal was. i was expecting something like endeavour - a configured OS but around 1500 packages. so i really appreciate that warning haha. ok better start making my list.

i hopped from arch/wm to xub too. tbh everything i learned from setting up awesome, qtile, open box etc helped me get really into the functionality of xfwm and make it really work for me. it’s a little sluggish, but only compared to a completely bare bones wm. the distro hopping phase was a valuable learning experience, but i think this is a perfectly fine place to settle down.

i’ve been curious about the minimal edition. now that i’ve found replacements and workarounds in the ubuntu repos, i’ve been wanted to do a fresh install with that. i’ve got ~3100 packages just from trying stuff out and forgetting to uninstall it haha.

two skinny endeavour installs so far, so don’t mind me with my bloat

xubuntu. when this install gets too messy i’m probably going to try the minimal edition and install my old openbox or awesome wm configs.