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So it begins.
I've been flashing my USB often enough that it's now worth it to keep all my ISO's neatly to use them when I need them. I plan on buying 10 USB sticks to just have ready when ever I need a specific version.
I'm visiting family now, so time to upgrade their Linux Mint to Kubuntu
Lol.
@Ek-Hou-Van-Braai you may be interested in #ventoy as it permits to put more ISOs into a single USB stick, choosing at boot time what to load
@Ek-Hou-Van-Braai Did your family request to switch distros? If not, you are not their friend and not doing them a favor.
It's their media PC, they literally just use to to watch YouTube and Series.
They're fine with the switch it makes no difference to them and KDE is nicer
Don't "upgrade" to Kubuntu. I'm on it and want to upgrade away because Ubuntu. Fedora Kinoite is probably the best bet if you want KDE for a tech novice.
KDE is really annoying though. Kate is a horrible text editor if you're not a programmer, and Kwrite has weird default shortcuts without any preconfigured "Gnome/Windows style" available. The Dolphin File Explorer doesn't allow you to sort and group by different things. And Kparted isn't as easy to use as Gnome Disk Utility. Still, I like how KDE had better themes than Cinnamon and how it actually lets me move programs to different categories in the start menu.
https://media.ccc.de/v/5012-the-first-encrypted-steam-deck-runs-opensuse#t=0
OpenSUSE is better than Fedora
I tried OpenSUSE and I ran into various issues installing software. Plus the immutable variant of OpenSUSE is an external project IIRC.
Yep, suse is cool, the default firewall config is way more restricted (safer but annoying at times). Dbeaver can't install some essential depends for some reason and shotcut is missing some features (I could try fixing it but for now I just use appimages). It is way more stable than fedora or arch, even if I sometimes forget to upgrade it for months.
OpenSUSE seems to not accept donations from ordinary users, which suggests their target is more the server side. I think a daily driver distro should probably be a daily driver distro and not a server distro.