Longtime Mint stickler here, never developed a taste for any other distro schools (Arch, Fedora, other *buntus and Debians). But tried out MX after a long period of deferring and I am genuinely blown away. This distro has everything I could have ever ask for - Debian stability coupled with advanced hardware support (with more recent zen kernels and drivers), a solid opinionated Plasma DE setup that is both minimalist and all-encompassing at the same time, and a full stock of sensible and pragmatic utilities to cover the boring stuff.

Mint’s relative lethargy at migrating to wayland has been increasingly becoming a sore point due to the sheer practical difference it makes (especially in terms of multi-monitor HiDPI and fractional scaling, in addition to security and performance). MX KDE has all that covered and then some. It’s the first time I had to genuinely stretch to find any fault. The only complaint I have is that they aren’t letting me post this testimonial in the MX forum because it doesn’t accept anon-aliased emails for logins.

  • OUwUO
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    8 hours ago

    But that’s the thing, I (and together with me many others) have already been doing this for a couple of years now. Granted, this is on another distro*. But I honestly don’t know why it wouldn’t be possible on Debian; perhaps (some of) the groundwork has already been put into place 😉.

      • OUwUO
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        8 hours ago

        Fedora Atomic and its derivatives (like Bazzite and its uBlue-siblings). I wouldn’t be surprised if the same applies to NixOS and other (paradigm-wise/philosophically-)related projects.

        • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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          7 hours ago

          Hm, immutable distros change the game quite a bit. I don’t see how Debian could match that without introducing an immutable version of Debian, so it’s not really something that the people in charge of the upgrade process can solve.

          • OUwUO
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            7 hours ago

            We already have container images for use with bootc of many non-Fedora distros (including Debian). This is (part of) the groundwork I alluded to earlier. So it’s definitely possible. But I agree with you: it will only happen after the people in charge are interested in solving this.

            And even if I’m being (very) optimistic, I can only see an officially supported bootc-variant of Debian come into fruition if it’s necessarily better than the alternative; kinda like how systemd replaced the default init on most distros. And, even then, I only expect it to live alongside traditional Debian. As I’m simply unsure whether all of its kinks will eventually be ironed out. Only time will tell…