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I’ve only felt the need to change distros once, from Linux Mint to EndeavourOS, because I wanted Wayland support. I realize there were ways to get Wayland working on Mint in the past, but I’ve already made the switch and have already gotten used to my current setup. I personally don’t feel like I’m missing out by sticking to one distro, tbh. If you’re enjoying Mint, I’d suggest to stick with it, unless another distro fulfills a specific need you can’t get on Mint.

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It sounds like you’ve taken the appropriate precautions. I’m sure others will have better suggestions, but perhaps you can try running a VM for a week or so as if you’ve made the switch and take note of anything you feel you may be lacking.

EndeavourOS. I like having a relatively bloat-free setup. It’s also been nice because it’s been easy to manage so far.

If you receive these notifications on mobile, you can use kdeconnect (gsconnect on GNOME) which sends pop up notifications on your desktop from your phone, as a workaround.

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This is awesome, OP. I’ve crossposted this to @linguistics to give you a little more visibility. Cheers.

Vouching for Endeavour–I’ve been using it for the past few weeks and it’s been great. I have an AMD gpu though.

As of August 2023, Google Chrome accounted for 66.41 percent of the global desktop internet browser market share. I’d rather not contribute to Google’s influence over the internet. They already have too much power, and profit off of harvesting and selling our data.

Chiming in to say #Wayland is what resolved this issue for me. I had to switch from Linux Mint Cinnamon to #EndeavourOS + #GNOME and I’m much happier with my setup now.

#Wayland has been much better for my setup thus far

Recently switched to #EndeavourOS after using #LinuxMint for 9 months. Love it.

I feel like I’ve heard attempts at this from over a decade ago… doubting I’ll see this within my lifetime at this point.

AMD has served me well since I’ve started actively using Linux.

Though I enjoy and am currently using #LinuxMint, I wish I learned about #Wayland sooner. I didn’t understand why game performance felt so off with my dual monitor setup for several months. I have since dabbled with an #Ubuntu #Gnome DE for some gaming, and Wayland support has alleviated those problems. However, I plan to look into other options when I’ve organized my data a bit more and establish proper backups. Learning #Bash, #scripting, #aliases, #workspaces and tweaking #hotkeys were also useful for making my workflow into what it is. Also, I wish I knew how bad #ProtonVPN and #ProtonDrive #Linux support would be. Despite getting used to their #CLI applications, the absence of feature parity is immensely disappointing.

I use workspaces everyday as a context switcher for related apps and programs. An example would be a “main focus” workspace that includes whatever project I’m working along including any relevant documentation or browser windows. When it’s time to take a break, I have a separate workspace for stuff like kbin or messaging platforms.

Another consideration is that I’m always using a mouse on my desktop, so switching between workspaces with the keyboard wouldn’t feel as natural.

I use hot corners for this reason. Dragging my mouse to one of the corners of the screen brings up the workspaces interface.