• 33550336@lemmy.world
    604·
    15 days ago

    I have the Mint (it’s fucking good) and no need nor ambition for any other system. Especially an elitist shit which break after an upgrade.

    • festnt@sh.itjust.works
      34·
      15 days ago

      haha imagine having to wait for an update to break your system (i use arch, and tried to config limine snapper sync)

      • 33550336@lemmy.world
        72·
        15 days ago

        once had arch, once cachy os, in both the cases after few weeks something was broken after update (libreoffice, matlab)

        never again

        • maccentric@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          14 days ago

          I had a Kubuntu install go south on me after an update and replaced it with Cachy and I’ve been really digging it so far.

          • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            13 days ago

            I have been in Debianland for the last few years, and I’m also in Cachy right now. Not all wine and roses, but I’m also liking it.

        • festnt@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          14 days ago

          i actually switched from cachy to arch because when kde plasma 6.6 released it wouldn’t let me past the login screen (i’d log in, it’d start loading and freeze the system)

          i used a snapshot to roll back the update and waited for plasma 6.6.1, where instead of freezing it’d just restart. then 6.6.2 released with the same issue as 6.6.0 so i just gave up and installed arch

          btw, i still havent figured out limine+snapper configuration yet

          • 33550336@lemmy.world
            1·
            14 days ago

            This is a kind of bullshit troubles what I am talking about. And they can arrive when you are in hurry and really need your computer. In my opinion, Arch is just for tinkering fun and ego boosting.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      15 days ago

      Mint’s a solid choice, I used Mint as a primary or only distro for 10 years, and I’ve still got it on my laptop. But don’t pigeonhole yourself trying to be not like the other girls. I’ve got Bazzite on my HTPC because Cinnamon is kind of ass at 10 feet, I’ve got Fedora KDE on my desktop for better Wayland support, and Fedora Gnome on a tablet because it’s the only thing that remotely works as a touch-first OS that I could get to actually run on that tablet.

      • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        13 days ago

        See? I knew doomscrolling served a purpose. Bookmarked for the info about the tablet.

        Does it work well with low spec tablets? 2Gb RAM 32 (64?) disk?

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          13 days ago

          The machine I have it on is a Lenovo Duet 3i, which has a Pentium processor and either 4 or 8GB of RAM. I bought that machine specifically to use in my wood shop, I wanted a fanless machine that could run FreeCAD.

          As a touch device, it’s just this side of unusable. It likes to forget what orientation it was in when waking up from sleep, and doesn’t like to correctly find out while waking up. Gnome will sort of mostly function with gestures and larger touch buttons, most apps are still designed very strictly for mouse and keyboard. The onscreen keyboard isn’t fantastic. I can confirm that Windows Vista had a better tablet experience than present day Fedora Gnome. But it functions.

          I tried Fedora KDE, and trying to get Fedora KDE to be a tablet OS was a fool’s errand, the features aren’t even half-baked, they’re on the counter waiting for the oven to preheat. Fedora offers a KDE Touch image which I found runs like boiled butt.

          I have no experience with ARM tablets; this is on an x86 tablet (or one of those Surface knockoffs with the keyboard that pops off).

    • redsand@infosec.pub
      13·
      14 days ago

      Im the guy who has to tell all the kids mint is run by volunteers who are not actually up to the task of running a secure OS. It’s not as bad as manjaro but it is not good either. Please stop making this people’s first distro, it’s an ubuntu fork that hasn’t needed to exist since spins came out.

        • redsand@infosec.pub
          1·
          13 days ago

          Not particularly now days but it’s lower hanging fruit than anything with paid maintainers

        • redsand@infosec.pub
          25·
          14 days ago

          Why? It’s the cold hard truth. Mint was created as an Ubuntu alternative that would be prettier and appear more like windows. It has never had solid corprate backing or even pillars of the FOSS community working on it. It’s a hobby project and not even a unique one anymore. Just use a fedora, buntu, debian or suse spin for new people.

          • moonshadow@slrpnk.net
            41·
            14 days ago

            The “cold hard truth” is that volunteers are more than up to stripping some the nonsense back off of ubuntu, and plenty of the people that made it good back in the day are involved with mint now. It’s no one’s favorite but this much hate for the beigest of distros is weird to me and your take on its origins is just plain wrong

          • 33550336@lemmy.world
            31·
            14 days ago

            It has never had solid corprate backing

            This is why I love mint, among other reasons.

            Recommending Ubuntu in place of Mint is a total derangement absurd.

          • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            13 days ago

            Isn’t Linux mostly either a hobby project for a huge majority of it’s contributors, or the origin of the rest?

            I kinda seem to remember that the Linux family tree is littered with failed corporate backed distros.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    49·
    14 days ago

    Y’all’s, I don’t want to tinker with my OS. I don’t wanna think about my OS. I just want my OS to work, mind it’s fucking business and leave me alone.

    • Pat@feddit.nu
      8·
      14 days ago

      It’s a simple life. All you need for an OS, and no more. Only issue is the stupid installer. Disk partitioning is like handling a gun blindfolded.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
      4·
      14 days ago

      Marduk I don’t know why you chose your username but it is my favorite of all the Mesopotamian/Babylonian I forget gods so I love it when I see your name pop up. First prize! :3

      • Marduk73@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        13 days ago

        I’ve used it forever. 90’s or early 00’s. Started with pazuzu from i think final fantasy or similar game.

        Then was thinking of ancient gods as well. Fight between Marduk and tiamat.

        Just stayed with that.

        Well glad i can bring happiness where i can. Have a great day.

    • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
      4·
      14 days ago

      A few times per year I distrohop, but there’s always small glitches in every distro I try, except for Debian. At least on my laptop, Debian just works.

  • duncan_bayne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    14 days ago

    I daily drive FreeBSD and have tinkered with Plan 9 and Haiku.

    My Linux desktop (for gaming, DRM, and Linux-specific stuff), my wife’s laptop, the kids’ laptops, and our two media PCs all run Mint. It’s great.

  • anistorian@lemmy.world
    8·
    15 days ago

    Don’t worry. You can just as easily wreck your Mint install as any other distro, as soon as you start to poke around.

    • Mr.Chewy@lemmy.world
      1·
      15 days ago

      As a someone who wanted to play around with mint after already using arch for a longer while to check out “distrohopping”: easier*

      (went right back to my comfort space of arch real quick, don’t really get distrohopping yet, how do I actually do that properly?)

    • idlesheep@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      And, importantly: the same applies to Windows. How many updates has Windows had that broke something essential with no user intervention?

      Fact of the matter is any OS can break if you purposefully try to poke around without knowing what you’re doing.

      What distros that are more “resilient” to breaking do is either prevent you from easily/accidentally poking around, prevent you from applying updates willy-nilly, or set up easy rollbacks in case something breaks (or a combination of these).

      Imo, if you’re not a tinkerer and you have a distro with backups properly setup, you’re very likely gonna be fine no matter what distro you choose.

      Though Mint is still awesome and if you don’t have any problems with it just keep using it.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
    8·
    13 days ago

    At the end of the day for new and casual users, support wins. Ubuntu has the largest community of support, making Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu while having a more elegant variety of UI, making it a good compromise. Good choice.