Mint is ugly and they are way behind the n Wayland adoption. Their updater annoys me because you have to double-shot it by updating the update then running it again to get the updates the old updater couldn’t install.
Otherwise it’s fine.
Explore fedoras options instead, in particular the KDE ones if you are coming from windows.
I can appreciate the Debian base. There’s shortcomings but they are well understood and predicable. A Debian system isn’t going to sneak up on or surprise you. The updater is fucking obnoxious and has no reason to be as annoying and windows-y as it is. And while the task bar, desktop and launcher mostly make sense, the dialogs and windows blend far too much and seem to take the worst ideas from GNOME and Apple.
It breaks my brain how they are structured and predictable on those areas but then shit the bed on the elements people interact with most frequently.
I still check in on it ever few years. It’s still going in the right direction, but I’m really annoyed at some of the things they never addressed.
Mint is a glorious debloat of Ubuntu with several extras and are strategically wise in having LMDE ready and in production. They fill a very important role as an user-friendly not-DIY distro suitable for someone completely unfamiliar with Linux. I wouldn’t describe Fedora that way. It changes too fast for that use case and compared to Mint comes with not much preinstalled.
There’s nothing wrong with Mint and there’s never been a better time to move to Linux.
Mint is ugly and they are way behind the n Wayland adoption. Their updater annoys me because you have to double-shot it by updating the update then running it again to get the updates the old updater couldn’t install.
Otherwise it’s fine.
Explore fedoras options instead, in particular the KDE ones if you are coming from windows.
There are subjective reasons to not like Mint just like there are for every distro.
I, personally, would not use Mint. But it’s great for a lot of folks.
I can appreciate the Debian base. There’s shortcomings but they are well understood and predicable. A Debian system isn’t going to sneak up on or surprise you. The updater is fucking obnoxious and has no reason to be as annoying and windows-y as it is. And while the task bar, desktop and launcher mostly make sense, the dialogs and windows blend far too much and seem to take the worst ideas from GNOME and Apple.
It breaks my brain how they are structured and predictable on those areas but then shit the bed on the elements people interact with most frequently.
I still check in on it ever few years. It’s still going in the right direction, but I’m really annoyed at some of the things they never addressed.
Mint is a glorious debloat of Ubuntu with several extras and are strategically wise in having LMDE ready and in production. They fill a very important role as an user-friendly not-DIY distro suitable for someone completely unfamiliar with Linux. I wouldn’t describe Fedora that way. It changes too fast for that use case and compared to Mint comes with not much preinstalled.
as a mint user im only really waiting on keyboard layouts to go use Wayland.