Features (e.g. USE flags, different inits, musl, package manager speed, newness vs stability, different core utils, etc)
Reliability
Education
Community
But yeah… It’s a mite silly to be distro-hopping just to try different desktop environments.
Methinks several still-new users are yet to realise the desktop environment and distro are not tied together, and nearly all distros offer nearly all desktop environments to install, just one command away.
Why bother with distro hopping when you can desktop hop?
Some reasons
But yeah… It’s a mite silly to be distro-hopping just to try different desktop environments.
Methinks several still-new users are yet to realise the desktop environment and distro are not tied together, and nearly all distros offer nearly all desktop environments to install, just one command away.
It gets even more fun when exploring all the window managers, not just the few desktop environments. And… there be ways to ease that exploration even further.
I hopped from Debian to Manjaro and kept KDE Plasma. Main reason: Debian is stable, but I had to wait too long for some updates.