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namelivia ,

It is a sinus wave from me, went between Ubuntu and Arch several times depending on how playful y feel :D

possiblylinux127 ,

More like Fedora with a bunch of VMs

hesusingthespiritbomb ,

I’m old enough to remember this being Ubuntu.

stebator , (edited )
  • Don’t forget, that the Mint developers and developers of other “user-friendly distros” do very hard work, so you can enjoy less-hassle distro.
  • But it is very boring for “Never Settle” philosophy to use such distros.
  • Don’t forget, that some people enjoy tinkering thing around them. Mint, Pop!_OS, Fedora etc are simply not interesting for them. They choose the hardest possible way and enjoy it.
Lightfire228 ,

My first “daily driver” distro was Arch, and i love every minute of it.

It’s a tinkerer’s dream

ramius345 ,

Use Linux professionally. Worked with RHEL for years. Current gig uses Debian servers. Daily driver is a system 76 machine with the pop OS that came on it. Debian derivatives make great daily drivers for those of us that just need a browser, terminal, working wifi, and the ability to build and run containers.

SexualPolytope , (edited )
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Different distros are better at different things. Need a stable distro for your grandma? Use Debian or Mint. Need latest software? Use Arch or Gentoo. (And people do need latest software sometimes. For playing games, or in my case, for doing research. The F is FOSS stands for Free after all.) Similarly, there are server distros like AlmaLinux tuned for high reliability. I think it’s counterproductive to argue about the “best” distro.

I guess the meme technically doesn’t say that Mint is the best, but it kinda gives off that feeling by ridiculing Arch users.

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Not shown: The top 0.05% - “Use whichever distro you’re satisfied with. The different distributions exist to offer choice, not to compete.”

lengau ,

Seriously… At SCaLE this year I saw people from various distro booths taking breaks and visiting other distro booths. Each time they looked genuinely interested and excited about what the other distro was doing.

Prunebutt ,

Seriously: this non-competitive behavior in the FOSS community is soo fucking refreshing!

Pan_Ziemniak ,

Almost like humans find cooperation is healthier than competition on the whole…

FOSS til i die, please.

Prunebutt ,

“Don’t compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!” -Pjotr Kropotkin

Pan_Ziemniak ,

Based and breadpilled.

dharmacurious ,

My God I love Lemmy. Finding a Kropotkin quote in the wild? Outside of an anarchists sub? Without specifically searching for it?

It makes me feel less alone. Thank you.

Prunebutt ,

Glad to be able to quote it and receive so much positive feedback :)

lengau ,

I kinda feel like there’s very little overlap between distro fans and distro developers. Probably because distro devs tend to know all the dirty secrets of their distro.

You go on Reddit or wherever and it’s all “distro X is evil, use distro Y instead,” “No, Y is terrible! Use Z!” And then you sit at a table with a SuSE developer, a Fedora developer and an Ubuntu developer and the conversation is all “so how are you guys dealing with this issue?” “Oh, I think we came up with a great solution, I’ll share the patch set with you!” “Wonderful, thanks! By the way I opened up a merge request on your stuff because we figured out how to fix that namespaces issue.”

ChicoSuave ,

Capitalism thrives on exclusivity, teaching people that others doing the same thing is competition and not friendship.

rtxn ,

Read this and your brain might get a new wrinkle: it’s possible to appreciate multiple distributions for their own merits.

Steve ,

i.imgur.com/suaSSMr.jpeg

Waffelson ,

Why didn’t you just paste a picture in the comment? https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f0bc86ed-fc82-4248-8d45-f2284cae72ea.pngThat’s more faster

Steve ,

I’m using memmy, and I dont see an obvious way to do that.

Steve ,

i.imgur.com/suaSSMr_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=…

This is what happens when I copypaste the same image

Steve ,

Furthermore I cant even expand your thumbnail.

That said my phone has been glitching like crazy so idk

rtxn , (edited )

Copy-pasting the image will upload it to the lemmy instance, taking up storage space. You should instead embed externally hosted images using the following markdown expression:


<span style="color:#323232;">![](</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#323232;">https://i.imgur.com/suaSSMr.jpeg</span><span style="color:#323232;">)
</span>

https://i.imgur.com/suaSSMr.jpeg

Waffelson ,

Yes, this way you reduce the load on your instance, but I often see image hosting deleting images and I get scared when I see an imgur link because it often blocks image viewing for me

zephr_c ,

Meanwhile I’m over here dual booting Mint and Artix. I like fun, bleeding edge hobby distros and reliable boring ones that do everything I really need completely reliably.

spez ,

I don’t have any need for arch, fedora is fine as it is. Might try arch if I have more reliable internet someday, my main concern is my system going brrrr one evening when I need to do some important legal work.

Armando3996 ,

If you need the stablest of stable stuff there’s nixos.

Diplomjodler ,

Well, I’m still in the noob stage and i intend to stay there. My OS is just a means to an end and Mint is perfect for that.

folkrav ,

That’s fine. Most people aren’t “Windows pros” either.

agressivelyPassive ,

My windows have arches, BTW.

Pan_Ziemniak ,

Saaaame. Been using Mint almost exclusively for 5-10 yrs and i still feel like im playing in the wading pool of what u can do with it. I learn more as I need to, and generally enjoy that process. I always feel super satisfied with myself when i use the terminal, even if its sudo apt-get install Firefox.

Diplomjodler , (edited )

Whenever I need to do something, I’ll figure it out. Sometimes it’s a pain, like getting VNC to work. But then I’ll write down the most important bits and duly forget the rest. I just want this stuff to work.

SpaceNoodle ,

hell yeah mint

M500 ,

Yeah, this is me completely, although I did use Fedora kde spin as I was getting tired of the mint ui. I used it exclusively for many many years and the steamdeck completely changed my opinion.

puppy ,

steamdeck completely changed my opinion.

What do you mean? Did it convince you to keep using KDE or did you go back to another desktop afterwards?

M500 ,

Sorry, what I mean is that steamdeck desktop mode made me love kde plasma and decide to switch from mint to kde plasma.

3volver ,

Linux Mint has been good so far, but Debian is still the one I’m going to use mainly.

ProdigalFrog , (edited )

Hell yeah Linux Mint Debian Edition

TimeSquirrel , (edited )
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

At that point, what are you using Mint for? The Cinammon DE?

IMHO, KDE feels much more modern, while Cinammon kind of feels like it's stuck in 2003. It reminds me of the stock gray boxy Windows 9x/NT/2000 interface.

phuntis ,
@phuntis@sopuli.xyz avatar

I love cinnamon it’s the main reason I use mint I tried debian with mint but the theming was ugly but the cinnamon on mint mmm beautiful I find it very comfortable and familiar like all the good parts of windows 7 just with a tad bit more modern design

apprehensively_human ,

I think Cinnamon is version 6 on Mint while Debian is stuck on a v5 build.

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I stuck an Arc theme on it and that modernized it a lot.

To me, Cinnamon sits somewhere between the extremes of Gnome and KDE.

Gnome is an Android launcher with a concussion. Every major update is a list of things it can’t do anymore. Hopefully by Gnome 52 the system won’t even POST let alone boot. Every utility is a blank window with an empty menu up in the top bar that does as little of its job as it can, apparently in service to some “blank is beautiful” aesthetic.

KDE feels like the control panel of a nuclear power plant, LOADS of crap everywhere. Widgets and wodgets and panels and sidebars where does it end? Every utility is an incorrectly sized window completely crammed full of drop downs, radio buttons and text fields with several tabs and sub-menus with lots of options, because what if esoteric use case?

Cinnamon is a middle ground in between; they have a “most users, most of the time” approach so that UIs are understandable and digestible, and usually let you do what you want to do, without being uselessly blank or obsessively crowded.

Cinnamon doesn’t need therapy, Gnome and KDE do.

Max_P ,
@Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me avatar

IMO Mint is to Ubuntu what Manjaro is to Arch: a pile of duct tape in the name of user experience ready to blow at the worst time, down to the TLS certificate mishaps.

People pick really weird distros to worship…

zloubida ,
@zloubida@lemmy.world avatar

It’s strange to worship any distro.

backhdlp ,
@backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

The only distro we should worship is Hannah Montana Linux

kusivittula ,

when i decided to dump windows, i tried lots of distros. most would refuse to install or even boot to live, and the ones that do install successfully have issues with nvidia. like parts of the screen going unresponsive, constantly reverting to 60 hz, and just completely crashing. ubuntu does all three, fedora won’t even install, arch distros can’t find any of my sound devices. but mint works. no nvidia issues, no crashing, all devices work, refresh rate stays at 120. that’s some damn good duct tape.

themarty27 ,

More like Ubuntu is to Debian what Manjaro is to Arch. And then Linux Mint takes the nice stuff from Ubuntu but does away with the bullshit.

UnfortunateShort ,

I think you give Manjaro a little too much credit here. Not that I want to hate on it, but Ubuntu is much less closely related to Debian than Manjaro is to Arch.

themarty27 ,

Yeah, my point was more that both Manjaro and Ubuntu are systematically mismanaged derivatives of brilliant upstream distros with regular blunders in their development process, but with inexplicably large communities.

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