[greatgib]

I would highly recommend Linux Mint as an alternative. (Cinnamon has my preference)

So far they are still kind of corporate free in the spirit of doing a desktop distribution keeping things as a normal or dev user would expect without pushing stupid changes in order to advance a corporate agenda.

Also, they are currently based on Ubuntu that they debloat but there is a debian based variant (LMDE) that show future perspectives if Ubuntu become not really usable anymore as a base in the future.

[cies]

Do they take a stance against snap?

[dirkf]

They're against it; see for example https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906

[cies]

tnx, good to know.

then it's just my pref for KDE that holds me back :)

[godshatter]

I'm a kde user as well, and since I'm on ubuntu and thinking about switching to something else I did a quick search to see if it was possible to run kde on mint and it appears you can. You have to add the kubuntu backports ppa ("sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports") and then you can install kde using apt ("sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop").

I haven't tried this, so I don't know if it actually works well or not, but it is apparently possible.

[rascul]

Yes

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906