jakoline1 wrote: ↑2021-07-29 09:15
Can anyone tell me what are the major most expected problems that I'm gonna face as a desktop user (not operating a server) after this transition?
Depends on the distribution you choose. I tried PCLOS, Devuan and MXLinux.
PCLOS wouldn't even load so DNS there.
MXLinux has a great community, always helpful. They have also developed a range of really useful utilities that make some common tasks a breeze. For me, coming from Debian, the way MX sets permissions I found quite strange. Difficult to do almost anything unless root. I'm personally not a big fan of XFCE, particularly Thunar, and while I could have persevered, there just didn't seem to be any particular benefit. For most things within the GUI, there was little difference although it took forever to boot, worse than Ubuntu.
Devuan was pretty new when I tried it but, at least on my desktops it was much faster then Debian. At the time I had around 15 desktops to admin and making a change seemed to offer no significant advantage, at least from the perspective of a desktop user where there was no real, discernable difference. From an admin point of view, sticking with a distro with a bigger base offered a lot more security for the longer term. That's not to denigrate their forum community who were more than friendly and helpful - a little more technical than MX perhaps.
Bottom line is that I don't think you'll find a big difference between Debian (with systemd) and those I've mentioned, at least from the view of a desktop user. Do what I did, download their iso, install in a VM or, as I do, in a spare partition and give them a try. Linux, in most flavours, is so flexible that you can tailor the experience to whatever you like. There are a few differences in programs to handle things like networking and sound, but easy enough to get used to them and they're the kind of differences you'd get just changing distros anyway.