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Switched to Linux, don't know what to do
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this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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You have chosen a distro that's quite conservative - it's only LTS versions and while I personally love Cinnamon, I wouldn't call it very customizable.
If you want to play and tinker, install either a distro with KDE or install KDE on your Mint, from what I hear it's customizable as hell. The newest Gnome also looks quite fancy, so that might also be what you're looking for.
Note that you can install any desktop environment on your existing Mint, you don't have to distrohop if you don't want to. Mint doesn't have the newest packages, but it's very stable.