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Emperor Kuzco 2 months ago
I tried to use a different OS and desktop environment and that went like total ass. I shall tell you about it. First Attemp: I tried to use Debian 13 with Gnome desktop. Debian was a total pain in the ass trying to understand the installer. I totally lost my shit with Gnome when I couldn't figure out how to make a text file on a backup drive. Righ-click / new text file? FUCK NO! Second Attemp: Debian 13 with KDE desktop. On first boot I immediately had an IBUS notification problem. Fuck my life! Took care of that problem after an hour of searching and read, read, read some more. I could tell this OS was going to be for testing out some questionable app installs. Fuck off, I'm installing ROCm and PyTorch in this bitch even if I grenade it. Mission accomplished, LOL! Now I'm back on the OS and desktop of my choice with ROCm and PyTorch installed. Arch with KDE. Only took a could days.

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Emperor Kuzco 2 months ago
Never tried Mint or xfce. Myself, I always customized Windows back in the day to give it my own touch. I like a highly customizable desktop that is functional. I couldn't say I could navigate xfce well enough to get it to run local LLM's. I tried Gnome and it reminded me a lot of Apple iOS due to lack of customization out of the box and gave me "the you can't do that because you might break our shit" feeling.