• Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    Just curious because Distrowatch can be easily gamed; does anyone know how this might affect the linux consumer market? I’m using Mint and see no reason to switch to this. I used to nerd out about different distros but aside from the enterprise distros or Debian or Arch preferences I don’t see why people are using smaller distros anymore. Hobbyist i guess?

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      16 days ago

      Thanks for de-influencing me out of switching to KDE plasma, mint and ubuntu are the only distros I’ve tried and I’ve been thinking about trying something new

      New users (like me) that aren’t necessarily passionate about linux and just looking for a windows alternative can be easily persuaded early on

    • TMP_NKcYUEoM7kXg4qYe@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      mainly hobbyists or some very specific feature. For example antiX for old hardware or Spiral Linux for the better installer, gaming specific distros for gaming etc. Also there are protest distros which advertise not having something - usually SystemD.