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[–] 65 points 8 months ago (23 children)

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.

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  • [–] 38 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

    never again

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I distro hopped for a week, and it was the little things that were dealbreakers.

    I love Mint. Mint is love.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Running Mint xfce on an N100 HTPC with couple of docker containers. I believe this is the most stable OS I ever used. Never breaks, updates are coming regularly. Easy to use for my wife who's never seen Linux in her entire life. Makes 0 hustle and barely consumes any resources. Kind of a "set it and forget it" setup. Fucking love it!

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • 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).

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    I put a lot of will strength to not downvote this.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    No. They are not up to it. It's the #1 distro on Lemmy and it shouldn't be.

    To be clear the only distro I hate is Manjaro, mint I only think about when people here remind me it's popular. Downvote away, your oppinion is meaningless.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months 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.

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