Distros you tried but didn't like

[vitforlinux]

There are two types of distros that I don't like:

1) those that are exactly the same as their base with no differences worth the effort to create them... except for the wallpaper and the donation button.

2) those that are released once at the beginning of a year, everyone talks about them enthusiastically... but a second release never comes.

[rambo919]

I think I tried all the major KDE distro's.... MX was the only one worth staying with.... atm this is even more true with Kubuntu dropping any xorg availability it looks like.

Funny enough I can make do with systemd if I HAVE to (and with KDE6+ that has now become a reality as I predicted it would) but not with wayland, still to broken for what I need. Options good, forced depreciation not good.

Manjaro is absolutely beautiful but also a beautiful disaster. OpenSUSE seems like a clown in a suit trying to pretend to be stable but failing.... and it gets worse not better with each release with the little info that filters through to me. Mint.... cinnamon has stagnated too much for my taste and seems to be trying to emulate mac without letting on to it.... BSD just does nothing for me regardless of the flavour, too stagnated probably. Fedora is just not for me cant really pin down why other than their obsession with dragons probably.

My rule of thumb still stands though, MX for AMD hardware and Mint for Nvidia hardware.

[xtac]

Tried Devuan, but it couldn't even get my Bluetooth on my laptop to activate. Tried MX, worked immediately from the live ISO, so I just installed it. I'd be willing to try anything that's not SystemD, anything I don't have to compile myself, and anything that doesn't spy on me or sends/sells my data upstream. Not sure if there are any other options out there. Keep fighting MX!

[rambo919]

If someone wonders why Synaptic is special, it's because it's more than a package manager or software store. It gives the user a comprehensive overview of apt status and package relationships.
I have used this app since 2008 so I know where to find the info I want.

If ever any package just refuses to do what I want... synaptic might actually fix the problem. It's the swiss army knife of apt.

[Mauser]

If someone wonders why Synaptic is special, it's because it's more than a package manager or software store. It gives the user a comprehensive overview of apt status and package relationships.
I have used this app since 2008 so I know where to find the info I want.

If ever any package just refuses to do what I want... synaptic might actually fix the problem. It's the swiss army knife of apt.

I concur with your statement. What I like about Synaptic how it has the options of a basic uninstall and it has a complete uninstall removing everything of the offending program if such program is not running 100% Tip Top or what ever by eliminating the issue or issues.