really isn’t true if you conpare Arch-Gnome vs Ubuntu-Gnome,

So what I'm hearing is "Fuck Gnome"?

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I have to use Ubuntu (22.04 specifically) because I'm stuck with a 15yo laptop that can't handle much at all so I game via Shadow which only supports that Ubuntu version... it sucks and it's dumb but it's the best option. It's a constant fight against making it not auto update and run things automatically. If I have Shadow running and anything else becomes active the laptop goes into full jet engine mode and I have to pause the game or whatever I'm doing on the Shadow client, and often close it completely, or else it all crawls to a complete stop. It seems no matter what I do it refuses to stop qutomatically checking for updates whenever it feels like it via the several apps used to do so (software updater, snap store etc.). It does this a few times a day, it's so fucking annoying but nothing I've tried fully works. I dream of getting to use Linux Mint, Arch and a few other distros, but so far it doesn't seem like Shadow will expand their Linux support.

The only substance I can see to it is when do you draw the line from a modified Debian (or Ubuntu) setup to a "new" distro?

If you start with an Ubuntu image its technically possible to ship of Theseus it right into an Arch image, but you could argue the default config of both is best representative of the actual distro maintainers goal (even if irrelevant to power users).

(Saying this all as a NixOS user with a system that hardly even looks like Linux sometimes so maybe I'm a bit biased on how blurry all the lines are lmao)

I dunno. There are some of us who run Mint not because we don't know what we're doing but because we do* and we don't want to have to deal with any more nonsense than we absolutely have to.

From that small cohort, there are those of us who'll frown when all we have open is a few browser tabs and the system's using 8GB of RAM, twice the "recommended" spec. On startup with nothing running it's over 1GB.

It's hard not to see it as wasteful when you're old enough to remember perfectly good machines running on single-digit megabytes. **

* Or at least, think we do.

** Yes, things are much more complex these days. But are they really a thousand times more complex?

"Hey look, my old af computer works again. Sweet"

That's about how I see it. I've used other distros for niche projects (like un-bricking my OG Xbox with a 20 year old desktop, cause I fucked up the mod). But I use Mint for my daily computer, cause I'm not much of a software tinkerer... and my wife can use it without issues as well. Fuck, I do love Linux for all the hardware it's helped me save, regardless of distro

A safe bet is the best bet.

Been using it at work for LAMP stack dev for like 3 years and it never gave me issues.

The only trouble I have with it, is that my company bought an arrow lake lenovo thinkbook and all the firmware is proprietary or too new... My camera doesn't work well, I get crashrs, graphics glitches... But that is on Lenovo and my company not on Ubuntu afaik.

Tell me how deep the rabbit hole can go.

3 years later and I'm still on Mint.

Why go past Arch? What's the use case/flavor?

Fresh breath -> curved spine -> m'lady

Yeah that's me, but I started on Ubuntu. Arch is awesome, but Fedora does most of the same things and it's so much easier to maintain an installation of

That’s probably going to depend on your age. Mint didn’t exist when I was using Caldera.

I started on Mint, distro hopped for a bit, currently running CachyOS on my gaming laptop and Debian on my other laptop. I haven’t tried Fedora though. I did do Bazzite for a bit but it didn’t click. Maybe one day I’ll give regular Fedora a go.

Me: Ubuntu -> antiX -> Puppy? NetBSD?

That's me, if settling on an atomic Fedora (Bluefin DX) counts.

It's the most painless setup I've used, and everything I need to be productive is ready to go. Tweaking everything doesn't have the appeal it used to.

Does it get security updates?

Arch is like your psychotic ex. Sex is great, but one day, you wake up because she's burning the sheets of your bed while you're still inside.

I think you can use both: https://comparewords.com/critic/critique

They've done the menu dirty. Used to just list apps. Now it shows you everything but the apps.