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I've been mostly using Ubuntu and it's been working mostly well but I do want to switch at some point. I've tried Porteus but I've tried it on two different computers and I couldn't get the WiFi adapter to work on either of them. I know why it's not working on one of the computers but the WiFi adapter in the other one works just fine with Ubuntu so I have no Idea why it's not working.
I've got my eye on some other distros that I want to try but I haven't had the time or the desire to try them yet.
@vortexal @owatnext try POP_Os they are hardware friendly and it is ubuntu based
POP!_OS was one of the distros I was looking into but there are two reasons I'm not currently thinking about using it. First, the main reason I want to switch to a different distro, is because Ubuntu isn't very optimized. When I tried Porteus, it booted fast and everything loaded much faster than Ubuntu, but I obviously can't use it because of the WiFI adapter issue. The second reason, is that I want a different DE and I liked cinnamon when I used porteus, so that or something similar like LXDE might be what I want.
You can just install cinnamon on Ubuntu if you can figure out your driver issues.
I know I can install cinnamon on Ubuntu but like I said, I want to use a more optimized OS, so it would be better if I just switched to a different distro that's also compatible with cinnamon or something similar. I'm actually thinking about using Lubuntu, assuming it functions like an optimized version of Ubuntu but with LXQt as it's DE.
Also, the drive issues was with Porteus and not Ubuntu. The WiFi adapter works fine with Ubuntu but on porteus, it would load the driver into the kernel but then not use it for some reason. When I looked into it, people said it was an issue with the driver not being compatible but Porteus was trying to use the same driver that Ubuntu uses, so I don't know what else to do but at the same time I'm probably not going to try using Porteus again. Just in general, Porteus seems way to complicated for me to use, at least at this moment in time.