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| Spin/Pattern/Distro | Base/DE | Benefits | Drawbacks |
|---|---|---|---|
| U-Blue/Dakota!! :) 2026/06 | GnomeOS/Gnome | immutable,rollback,rolling,auto-update,current | Container-life, for better and for worse |
| U-Blue/Bazzite/Bluefin 2026/06 | Fedora-Silverblue/Gnome | immutable,rollback,rolling,auto-update,current | Container-life, for better and for worse |
| MicroOS/Aeon 2024/07 | tumbleweed/Gnome | immutable,snapper,rolling,auto-update,current | Container-life uncomplicates the base installation at the cost of complicating app installation/operation |
| tumbleweed 2019/02 | Gnome | zypper,yast,snapper,rolling,Nvidia repo,current | yast/SUSE approach inherently introduces: 1) SUSE’s own way of doing things 2) a duplication of existing DE tools 3) less DE intregration |
| Fedora 2016/11 | Gnome | dnf,DE-transparent,Nvidia repo,current | short support life, but not rolling. Consistent trouble upgrading versions |
| Manjaro 2016/08 | Arch/Gnome | Out-of-the-box brilliance, insane package/DE availability, DE-transparent, Nvidia easiest, current | feels a little unbridled for me. I like the protections offered by the enterprise-backed distros. |
| elementary 2016/09 | Ubuntu/Pantheon | See “Desktop Environment”: Pantheon | Ubuntu-based |
| Mint 2016/03 | Debian/Cinnamon | See “Desktop Environment”: Cinnamon | Ubuntu-based |
| Ubuntu 2014/09 | Debian/Unity | See “Desktop Environment”: Unity | Not a fan of apt-get, Ubuntu uses a different filesystem-framework than the other gnu/linux standards |
| Desktop Environment | Benefits | Drawbacks | |
| gnome | beautiful, minimalist approach, gtk4/csd | resource hog (functions, but not as graphically snappy on older hardware) | |
| pantheon | beautiful, minimalist approach, gtk4/csd | settings/options are too limited, forcing command-line hackery for petty customization | |
| cinnamon | familiar, centralized settings | feels old/dated, resource hog, anti-csd | |
| Unity | Good enough. batteries included. | I Never truly settled into the unity way-of-things which is odd considering it’s tweaked GNOME, which I like | |
| xfce | light on resources, graphically snappy, runs csd apps | not as cohesive as gnome | |
| budgie | GNOME-like but snappier, more cohesive than XFCE | less cohesive than GNOME, less snappy than XFCE, less mature/complete than both |
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