I only dabble in C# these days, mostly because Microsoft doesn’t bother porting .NET Forms to Linux, but my most recent GUI framework experiments were with Avalonia and that felt quite good. Not everything works as well on Linux (no Fluent design background blur, though I believe it does work on Windows and macOS) but functionality-wise, it’s pretty complete.
My IDE of choice is Rider, and the Avalonia plugin has some nice previewing features and a good chunk of XML/C# binding autocomplete.
There’s a paid option for Avalonia that will take your WPF application and instantly turn it into a cross-platform app, but that’s clearly focused on enterprise users (starting cost: $5k per app per platform for startups, four times that for “enterprises”, lol). I can’t blame them, though, because porting WPF to macOS + Linux + iOS + Android + web browsers + Tizen + (eventually) VisionOS by simply swapping out the SDK is pretty amazing tech.
Don’t worry yourself. If Mint works for you and you don’t have a good reason to switch. Just stay.
I started out with Mint as well. Switched from Cinnamon to Mate early on because I wanted to run a fancy compositor called Compiznand stay on that for like 2 years.
I still had a lot of free time, so I got “bored” by everything being so low maintenance compared to Windows 8. I checked out Arch and ran it for a bit with KDE 4 I think.
At some point I got a proper PC (was a crappy Laptop before) and wanted to Continue running KDE, so I chose KUbuntu because of that. I ran into some issues and a brick when upgrading that I couldn’t solve, so I went back to a rolling release distro to not need to worry about major updates again. I went with Manjaro as I thought it would be more stable than Arch (I didn’t have a problem with Arch, just craved max stability in general then).
In the meantime I since learned that Manjaro and Arch are about equally as stable from problems I needed solve and me sometimes running Arch on my old laptop when out.
I have been on Manjaro for about 7 years now (never re-installed), love it, KDE and don’t care about all the political stuff. I don’t care that people hate on Manjaro, never encountered a problem I couldn’t solve and will happily continue to use the distro until it breaks on me.
You can use whatever you like. Distro hopping can be fun, but is also a burdon and might prevent you from making your PC your home.
I wouldn’t switch especially for political stuff. Just use what you like. If you don’t wanna miss out, just watch some YT Videos of people testing out Distros/DEs or run some in virtual machienes. If you have a secondary device, you can also do hopping on that.
I hope this can help somewhat. Use whatever you like, don’t fret about political stuff. I used to kinda distro hop (not really) and now couldn’t care less about it.
You can easily check out other Distros using VMs, Docker Containers or even rented Servers for the most part.
If you have the time and are truely interested in Distro hopping (or just testing out a new DE) just go for it though. Just don’t let others dictate what you run.
It doesn’t seem to have any outrageously complicated dependencies to work, just C++, Boost and a few other recognizable names, at least at a glance. They also seemingly have an ArchLinux package, which means it’s likely to at least be buildable on latest everything. Mint will fall in between, so the odds it’ll compile are pretty good.
I think this is the perfect post to bring up XWayland.
That being said, I haven't used it yet (so I can't comment on whether it works flawlessly)! Can anyone elaborate on their experiences with it? I'm curious on it and don't have my hands on a Linux machine at the moment
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