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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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[–] 2 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

I think it might give you problems if you try to install it on brand new hardware though, because Mint uses an older kernel by default

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

    Yes, but it's easy to work around.

    Source: I bought a brand new Lenovo Legion autumn 2024, and the GPU needed a very recent nvidia driver, which in turn needed a newer kernel than what was available by default. I had to install a mainline kernel, and download nvidia driver from their site. Took maybe 30 minutes to get it up and running properly.

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

    Yeah but it's harder when something else is incompatible, like WiFi on a laptop, or Ethernet on a desktop. Not so easy to update the kernel without internet. I wonder if it would be possible for the installer to include multiple versions of the kernel to choose from.

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

    You've never had to bike over to a friend's house 8km away to download a modem driver and copy it onto a floppy and bike back home only to realize that the floppy had bad sectors and you had to do it all over again, and it shows.

    That's just the way network hardware has always been, regardless of OS.

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