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I Gave Up on Windows 11. Linux Mint Is Simply Better in 7 Big Ways (PCMAG) (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] 30 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Not curious, Canonical is widely seen as antithetical to open source ethos. But it is stable and has put in a lot of work for vendor support, which is why so many distros (including Mint) are downstream derivatives from Ubuntu.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Yep. Purely for interface simplicity mint is gonna feel a lot more familiar to people fleeing windows. Yes Ubuntu can install the same DE or even KDE. But it's not the default. And that confuses people.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

    This is why I think Kubuntu is a better suggestion than Ubuntu, and also Discover is better than the Ubuntu Software Center anyways and it makes it easy to avoid Snaps and does a good job managing Flatpaks.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    For family I've been pushing Bazaar. Depending on distro, discover can be lacking on integration. Updating some packages but not others. If your distro does flatpak, and it does. It's click bang done most of the time. No PPAs, or several user/community repos to cock you up randomly.

    Personally I like native and rolling release. But I've been using Linux for 30 plus years. When you just need it to work and be a relatively recent release. Can't argue with results.

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

    I haven't tried Bazaar

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    My biggest gripe about it is it uses gtk. Other than that it's fantastic. It's an awesome way to discover and keep your flatpaks up to date.

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