welcome in the cat friendly penguin group
Y’all’s, I don’t want to tinker with my OS. I don’t wanna think about my OS. I just want my OS to work, mind it’s fucking business and leave me alone.
That’s exactly why I run Linux. If you want something that just keeps running the basically the same way for like 20 years, that’s your option.
May I introduce you to OpenBSD? Where uptime is measured in years.
Calm down Satan
No, the devil’s OS is FreeBSD
I’m 100% in this camp, ive used Pop!_OS now for years and it’s never given me any grief! One PC has had it installed for almost 6 years and it still runs flawlessly.
I’ve been on Garuda for years now, and despite choosing an Arch derivative, I have zero (0) desire to ever change any kind of config, and I will never understand the desire to do so. I need my PC to actually work.
But have you considered paying for linux pro extreme max?
Bruh if I could pay a modest yearly subscription to a company and get actual professional personal support for Linux and not have to roll the dice on snarky forum comments, I unironically would.
That was the whole Redhat business model when they just started.
You can pay me, I got you fam
thats why i use linux too
Bazzite has pretty much been this for me for the past couple years
This. That’s why I have stuck with Mint for almost a decade now. It’s the perfect workhorse: it fits my workflow, is stable as heck, just quietly does what it needs to do and gets out of my way the rest of the time. Hence, I don’t see why I should switch to anything else.
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.
haha imagine having to wait for an update to break your system (i use arch, and tried to config limine snapper sync)
once had arch, once cachy os, in both the cases after few weeks something was broken after update (libreoffice, matlab)
never again
I had a Kubuntu install go south on me after an update and replaced it with Cachy and I’ve been really digging it so far.
I have been in Debianland for the last few years, and I’m also in Cachy right now. Not all wine and roses, but I’m also liking it.
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
This is a kind of bullshit troubles what I am talking about. And they can arrive when you are in hurry and really need your computer. In my opinion, Arch is just for tinkering fun and ego boosting.
I distro hopped for a week, and it was the little things that were dealbreakers.
I love Mint. Mint is love.
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!
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.
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?
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).
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.
Why is Mint less secure than other general purpose distros?
Not particularly now days but it’s lower hanging fruit than anything with paid maintainers
I put a lot of will strength to not downvote this.
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.
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
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.
Manjaro is a very good Distro
Certified
It has never had solid corprate backing
This is why I love mint, among other reasons.
Recommending Ubuntu in place of Mint is a total
derangementabsurd.And thankfully you will never work any real security job
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.
Hacker: Skipper
Programmer: Kowalski
Arch User/Gentoo User: Rico
Cat: PrivateDon’t worry, we’ll protect you
If you have any problems with Blueman not letting Bluetooth controllers work, install KDE system settings. Don’t know why that works but it does.
I will try that out. I usually directly go terminal
Those penguins appear to be Gentoo penguins, so in a way only one belongs
I bet OP wouldn’t even know if gentoo, chinstrap and adelie are penguins or linux distros
Adelle Linux? I thought there was only Hannah Montana Linux?
No no its a lively neighborhood, Rebecca Black Linux is also there.
Gotta Update on Friday 🎵
At the end of the day for new and casual users, support wins. Ubuntu has the largest community of support, making Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu while having a more elegant variety of UI, making it a good compromise. Good choice.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Mint Debian based these days?
Ubuntu is Debian based, so yes.
Regular Mint is based off of Ubuntu, which is Debian based itself. However, it is somewhat beholden to the Ubuntu way of doing things.
They do have a version that uses a plain Debian base, so they’re not reliant on Canonical. That version is LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).
i thougt its both, because they have a debian version
Next month will be two years in Mint exclusively. I have no complaints.
Well, I do miss the big preview window in File Explorer, but otherwise, I’m happy to be rid of Windows.
You, too, can become a 1337 h4xx0r with this one (1) simple trick: Read the manual!
Which is both definitely correct, but also profoundly unhelpful for newbies. But seriously, there is so much documentation, blog articles, video tutorials etc. for Linux, if you put in some effort everyone can go from newbie to hacker/programmer/gentoo user.
Last time I looked, the closest thing to a “manual” published by Linux Mint was mostly a manifesto about why they’re not using various bits of Ubuntu. Sure the good old
mancommand is still in there but Cinnamon is supposed to speak for itself.True that, it’s more relevant to commandline applications and whatever has a page in the Arch wiki (which is a great resource regardless of distro). Ubuntu itself does have extensive manuals, which are mostly still useful for Mint when they’re not specifically about Ubuntu’s default desktop environment.
I was recommended mint to start and quickly poked around too much and reached some limitations. Took like a month. Then i switched to arch and have been on that for like a year. The docs are amazing and i have learned SO much in a v short time
What were the limitations you encountered?
I was trying to do stuff with start up scripting and window tile management that my mint install was having a hard time with. Arch and kde plasma fixed it
Sounds like your issue was more the desktop environment than the distro itself. Did you ever try to install Plasma in it? Back when I used Mint, I actually used i3-wm for a while.
Nope, it felt too closed for me anyways. I like arch a lot more. I have had next to no issues.
Me who just have install Ubuntu.
Linux Mint is the gateway penguin.
Cat.
touch
man touch :)
Cat.
Where my debian as desktop homies at?
Still waking up and making breakfast. They’re perpetually 5 hours late.
It’s a simple life. All you need for an OS, and no more. Only issue is the stupid installer. Disk partitioning is like handling a gun blindfolded.
Tbh as an Arch (btw) user I’m not really some magic computer wizard, I struggle with basic python, I often forget command arguments (I take heavy advantage of fish but sometimes it doesn’t know the arguments either), I don’t know how to do much scripting, I don’t make my own config files, and my de is cosmic. Remember that most advanced Linux users are less advanced than people think (occasionally less advanced than even they think).
I installed arch using archinstall a few years ago just because i got sold on a custom hyperland config, never looked back.
I have yet to understand what the fuss is all about with it being difficult or not new user friendly.
Yes there are weekly updates, and on occasion they do break something, but that was never different on windows.
You do have to install/setup a lot more stuff yourself, fwiw. That’s probably largely what it is, that there’s little that comes pre-baked. It’s basically a build-a-distro toolkit.
Tbh i think the hypeland configuration solved pretty much all that for me.
The project has been renamed and changed maintainer since but its still very much alive if anyone wants to check it out.
https://github.com/HyDE-Project/HyDE
I had never seen a tiling window manager before and my only experience on Linux was a little ubuntu server to run my Minecraft server from.
Isn’t Hyprland created by a fascist?
Is it?!
I’d say most of that is just outdated opinions based on a time when archinstall wasn’t yet included in the live ISO and using it was also more frowned upon and seen as a “cheat”. Thankfully we mostly got over that second part.
I used to do that but switched away from Hyprland after cosmic released.
Ha, this is basically me. Still wouldn’t recommend rolling release to newbies, but my Linux knowledge is basic at best, and I’ve still used Arch for 8 years without many issues.
The closest thing to a programming language that i know is html. Messed around with bash once. Love arch
