I’m planning on moving (back) to Linux from Windows, but I’m not sure which desktop environment I want to use. What’s the easiest way to try them all out? Just do a bunch of dnf/apt installs? Is there a distro or project out there that makes this easier?

Looking to try out kde, gnome, budgie, cinnamon, xfce, others

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Ventoy is a godsend in that case. If you have a big enough USB stick, you can just put all distros you wanna try on it

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yeah, i also wholeheartedly recommend ventoy

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I take any chance I can to drop a Chris Barnett link:

Ventoy

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Ventoy

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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I just upgraded mine to a 512gb flash drive after blowing out a 256gb… maybe I have too many distros

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