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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by tracker1 on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:38AM (#35328085)
If you don't want to tinker with your UI, would suggest PopOS (System76 distro). If you like to tinker, I really like Ubuntu Budgie, which lets me have some bits of config based on Windows, Mac and just different from either. I took a few days to get it how I liked, and over a year since without much issue. Alternatively, there's always Mint or other Ubuntu or Fedora options out there.

All said, I really liked PopOS, it has some very sane defaults, good out of the box support for hardware as well. Most of the support is upstream via Ubuntu, but a lot of UI tweaks and custom additions are coming from System76, and they have been doing very well. Will likely switch back for the next LTS release.

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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by mcv on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:03PM (#35332594)
PopOS doesn't let me tinker with the UI? That's a shame. It was a big contender for me. But if it's Ubuntu-based, shouldn't it be just as configurable?
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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by evilduck on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:20AM (#35335868)
It's just Linux. PopOS uses Gnome which is less tinker friendly but you can still tweak some things or just install KDE or any other DE.
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Re:Get Off My Desktop Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid ... by tracker1 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @04:48PM (#35347601)
You can absolutely tinker, or replace the DE if you like... it's just less configurable out of the box than Ubuntu Budgie, generally speaking.
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