Ubuntu is great but uses snaps and adds other canonical bits. Linux Mint is essentially perfect but does not come with gnome desktop. Is there a ubuntu based distro that is essentially like linux mint but offers gnome as a desktop?

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    1 year ago

    I mean if buy like Linux mint you mean it’s awesome in every way you could give nixos a try :D

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      1 year ago

      I love NixOS, but OP is probably a new user (or doesn’t care about managing/customising their system), since they want a distro like mint (which is mostly a distro for new users/ a “just works” distro). So NixOS would probably suck for them

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        1 year ago

        Idk… it sort just works for me. I’m not great at nix itself but putting gnome in the config and a few apps in my environment was easy. If you want to avoid command line nixos will be tough but I think for a beginner who is going to learn how normal distros work anyway, might as well learn nixos if you’re interested in it.