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The original was posted on /r/linux by /u/matrix_drumr on 2026-03-28 18:29:04+00:00.

Hi, I’ve been trying a few distros in VMs in order to eventually choose one. I’m coming from Windows 11. So far I’ve tried Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin, Pop! and Feodra Atomic Cosmic. So my thoughts so far is Ubuntu is too basic and bland, Mint is very simple, familiar and intuitive but it feels like being on windows XP, which was a cool OS but there’s some things I like about more modern Os. Zorin was very comfortable but I didn’t spend so much time with it, but it felt like except for the effort to make it look like Windows, it felt very basic in features. Pop I really liked the window tiling manager and I like the fact that it comes with audio, video and gaming dependencies by default, but I do prefer the more windows like visual of Zorin, and it also felt like some things were basic or missing. Now the last one was Fedora Atomic Cosmic. It felt much more like a complete system, and has the cosmic window tile manager. However, no nvidia support, no low latency audio drivers, no scheduler. Now I’ve heard about Stellarite which is basically Fedora Atomic Cosmic with all that preinstalled. But it’s a very small project. I don’t know much about it. Would there be problems using a distro like that?

I also heard about bazzite which is also atomic but only KDE and cachy which is not atomic.

I do a bit of everything so I like to have a system that does everything.

What are your thoughts?