piccolo comments on Fix your Windows PC by Installing Linux Mint

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mint is based on ubuntu, and doesnt have the corporate slop. Bazzitte relies on flatpaks which is janky at best. Try explaining why you cant drag and drop in applications because they've been sandboxed....

As for fedora.... what does it offer better? Or is it just personal taste?

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[–] epicshepich@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago

The Flatpak drag-and-drop thing I've seen before (even on Mint) and I think it's because of permissions. Try installing Flatseal and monkey around with your Flatpaks' permissions; it may help.

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[+] entwine@programming.dev -8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Mint is based on ubuntu, and doesnt have the corporate slop.

What's corporate slop? Mint is just a mediocre rebrand with a different default DE, and way less maintainers/testers (which is why there are so many people asking why X doesn't work, where "X" is a basic thing any other distro does effortlessly)

Bazzitte relies on flatpaks which is janky at best. Try explaining why you cant drag and drop in applications because they’ve been sandboxed…

Flatpaks support drag and drop just fine. I think you're confused?

As for fedora… what does it offer better?

Than Mint? The same thing Ubuntu does: reliability. The average windows user isn't going to sign up to a web forum to post a question asking how to fix something that doesn't work, they'll just go back to Windows.

The best way to avoid that is to not recommend a fragile OS like Mint. Fedora, Ubuntu, and Bazzite are all far better choices.

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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago*

What's corporate slop

Do i really need to iterate the shenanigans of canonical?

Flatpaks support drag and drop just fine. I think you're confused?

I once installed discord as a flatpak and couldn't drag and drop files. Installed the .deb and it worked perfectly fine. I also had a lot of file permissions issues with flatpaks. I now avoid them like the plague.

The same thing Ubuntu does: reliability

And how is mint less reliable? Because it has less maintainers? So if you have a billion maintainers, then it should be more reliable? Right? Totally wont be a spaghetti mess. Unless you can actually provide metrics... we can assume windows is more reliable for having thousands of highly paid developers... by your own logic.

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