I used Ubuntu once a few years ago but had compatability issues so I went back to windows. Not a great programmer but I’d like to learn. I’m not looking to do much gaming beyond DOOM2 and factorio. Mostly looking for privacy and a way to get back into programming (I have this pipe dream of learning Assembly). I’m not to particular on UI, I can use whatever.
Edit: https://distrochooser.de for anyone who stumbles upon this post with the same question
Official support of KDE was dropped by the Mint team a while back, and I’m pretty sure LMDE has only ever been Cinnamon too.
Despite this, it is possible to install and use a different desktop manager.
KDE and all the usual KDE packages remain available from the Software Manager, and a different DM can be selected at the GUI login screen (once installed, of course).
If you don’t even want to touch Cinnamon once, I suspect you could jump to a text-only terminal, enter
apt install kde-standardetc. and then jump back to the GUI login to see if it knows about KDE. A reboot (or similar) might be needed? That should be all though. (Very reminiscent of deliberately using command lineftpor a Windows port ofwgetto get Firefox back in the day when people didn’t want to touch Internet Explorer, but Cinnamon isn’t that bad, surely? ;) )(FWIW I don’t mind it. I switched from Win7 back in the day and Cinnamon was similar enough that I felt at home. One day maybe I’ll switch to something else. KDE probably won’t be it, but you never know.)
thanks for the info, I won’t hold my breath haha. I’ll probably just stick with Kubuntu for now, it’s not so bad after removing snapd