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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

bruhduh , (edited )
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

Dayum, 9 years ago i started with mint and distro hopped a bit then daily drived arch for many years, and now I’m back to lmde6, so you ain’t gotta call me out like that

lightrush , (edited )
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DumbAceDragon ,
@DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works avatar

I see more posts complaining about annoying arch users than I actually see annoying arch users

That being said, hell yeah mint

creation7758 ,

Arch user here. Mint is cool. Go mint!

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

Of course Mint is cool. If it wasn’t it’d be Spice.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

Cinnamon hearts DE is pretty spicy. Perfect counterpart to Spearmint OS.

idefix , (edited )

Manjaro user here, they’re both cool

png ,

I wish mint + AUR was a thing

kronarbob ,

Pacstall is AUR for Ubuntu (so UUR?) based distributions. It is certainly less complete than AUR, but still it might be useful depending on your needs.

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    kronarbob ,

    I’d rather trust an Ubuntu community repo than the snap store. At least, for pacstall, the community is able to review the package.

    Since the snap store is the default store on Ubuntu , there is more chance that he will be targeted by malicious software than a community repo than has to be manually installed.

    akhial ,
    @akhial@lemmy.world avatar

    Tbf after searching for a just works distro and going down a distrohopping bunny hole I ended up on arch lol.

    pacman -S gnome and everything is gucci + AUR is something else.

    PolarisFx ,
    @PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Yea I’ll stick with Arch for the AUR, so many times I’ve come across something I wanted to try and I see .tar.gz and I’m like ehhhh

    9/10 it’s on the AUR

    baseless_discourse , (edited )

    I stay away from AUR because it is completely unsandboxed and unmonitored.

    To be fair, I don’t believe flathub is constantly monitored, but at least it is (somewhat) sandboxed, if I set everything up in flatseal.

    I have recently replaced my final .tar.gz app (git-credential-manager) with the builtin github extension of codium, and removed my final two ostree overlay with flatpak sdk extensions.

    I am now happy (except I can no longer gpg sign my commit… github.com/flathub/com.vscodium.codium/…/105 )

    derpgon ,

    I mean, there are two options: You either don’t have the technical knowledge or time to install it yourself and thus you’d are fucked, or you don’t have the technical knowledge to read through the AUR and make sure it is safe and you could be fucked.

    Or, a third option for the gurus: You build it yourself, but then you might aswell read through AUR and save yourself time.

    baseless_discourse ,

    Ideally you would install app directly from the app developer, who you are trusting by using their app; or your distros maintainer, who you are trusting by using their OS.

    The use of AUR and/or unverified flathub app adds an additional person to trust, that is the person packaging these apps. flathub is slightly better as the app is sandboxed, so the damage they can cause is confined.

    Unfortunately, AFAIK, there is no store for sandboxed command line apps, this is one of the reason I like to minimize my command line usage. So that I don’t need app that isn’t packaged by my distro maintainer (like oh-my-zsh) to improve my cli experience.

    737 ,

    I’ve used Mint and, honestly, I don’t like it. The default applications are kind of annoying to deal with, I find KDE and GNOME far superior. Themes are very limited. I just don’t see why you’d want to use Cinnamon.

    gamermanh ,
    @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Right out of the box it functions enough like Windows that even my wife swapped with barely a hiccup

    Yes, other distros can be great and all that jazz, but Mint makes a strong first toe dip for those who are less confident in tech

    Shit, I’m confident and I actually preferred my mint install over the other couple of distros I tried partly because it came mostly pre done and only my server gets my IT time these days

    CosmicCleric ,
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    Right out of the box it functions enough like Windows that even my wife swapped with barely a hiccup

    To be fair, you can say the same thing about KDE.

    gamermanh , (edited )
    @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Tried out fedora and it was really good, but mint just felt a little bit more right to me

    Which sucks cuz I fuckin own a fedora like a massive nerd and wanted to make that joke as often as possible. I mean I grow mint too but big fucking whoop it’s a dollar to get a plant and near impossible to kill

    CosmicCleric , (edited )
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    Tried out fedora and it was really good, but mint just felt a little bit more right to me

    Oh I definitely like the idea of Mint, but for gaming I need a distro that keeps itself up to date more often, especially when it comes to graphics drivers and Proton, etc.

    Which sucks cuz I fuckin own a fedora like a massive nerd and wanted to make that joke as often as possible. I mean I grow mint too but big fucking whoop it’s a dollar to get a plant and nest impossible to kill

    Could you explain the highlighted bolted part for me? Is that a typo, or some kind of gardening term?

    h3mlocke , (edited )

    Yahh, i think they are joking about the hat and the plant

    That mint ain’t going nowhere

    CosmicCleric , (edited )
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    No I get they are being tongue and cheek, I just don’t literally understand the meaning of using the word ‘nest’ and ‘impossible to kill’ together in a sentence.

    gamermanh ,
    @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    “near impossible to kill”

    Autocorrect and my lack of proofreading foiled me

    CosmicCleric ,
    @CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

    Ah, okay. I was wondering if some new thing I just hadn’t heard of. Thanks.

    KillingTimeItself ,

    idk man, i just like me a good non derivative distro. Debian, arch, nix, gentoo, whatever as long as it has less hands it’s being passed through im happy.

    Linkerbaan ,
    @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

    Having a custom distro that installs some extra frequently used software by default is no problem for me.

    KillingTimeItself ,

    for me that’s just a script that auto installs the software i need at minimum to be productive. Gimme an X server, i3wm, and some applications to compliment it and i’ll be one very happy user.

    WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

    Use Arch if you want maintaining your system to be a hobby in its own right. Use Mint if you just want something that works.

    baseless_discourse ,

    Unless you want two monitors with different scaling.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    The funny thing is, I feel like I have to maintain my arch system less than Windows

    growingentropy ,

    It’s definitely not as bad as people make out. That said, I only run Arch on my main machine, and Debian on the rest. Just in case, you understand.

    derpgon ,

    Same with Manjaro 🤟

    0x2d ,

    i’ve had manjaro break way more than normal arch

    Armando3996 ,

    Jeez, no. Use endeavouros

    midnight ,
    @midnight@kbin.social avatar

    Arch is great if you want to customize your system, but I wouldn't say it really needs "maintaining" beyond just updating more frequently. (which you don't even really need to do very often, you just have the option to get newer versions of software.)

    moon ,

    I don’t even update my Arch setup that often. Most of my stuff lives in flatpaks. I just want updated software and rolling release, which Arch is the best for that.

    UnfortunateShort ,

    You are missing the “Cinnamon on Arch” guy a little further up the scale, but you gotta crop somewhere I guess 🤷

    jak2k ,

    I prefer Fedora. It works great and has no bullshit.

    Sar ,
    @Sar@lemmy.world avatar

    I tried installing Fedora a few weeks back.

    It did not like my 3080 and broke horribly.

    Back to Endeavour…

    ChaoticNeutralCzech , (edited )

    Hard to tell if the 𝑦-axis is population or loudness

    loudWaterEnjoyer ,
    @loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Guy on the right will use Debian stable, rest is correct.

    kuneho ,
    @kuneho@lemmy.world avatar

    hell yeah debian

    ITGuyLevi ,

    Hell yeah LMDE

    JoMomma ,

    Thats the best mint flavor

    jelloeater85 ,
    @jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

    I just wish they had it w MATE

    tswiftchair ,

    Yeah I agree with the sentiment, use whatever is good for you, but I feel like most advanced linux users are not using Mint. They typically come to the realization that everything is either Debian, Arch, or build it yourself so they use one of those.

    jelloeater85 ,
    @jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

    Man, might swap to Debian 12, trying it on my netbook, it’s nice.

    loudWaterEnjoyer ,
    @loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    I’m running Debian 12 for while now and it works great. Gossip says you need to get everything from flatpak because the packages are so outdated, but that’s bullshit.

    jelloeater85 ,
    @jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

    I get newer packages on my netbook then my desktop running u Ubuntu 22.04.

    loudWaterEnjoyer ,
    @loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Does Gentoo already count as “build yourself” on your list?

    chronicledmonocle ,

    Hell Cinnamon DE is literally an install option on Debian. LOL.

    sirico ,
    @sirico@feddit.uk avatar

    Definition of standing on the shoulders of giants. Even from the start when it offered the codecs Ubuntu didn’t mint has been there. Same for arch want something specified but don’t want to start at a lfs or Gentoo it has your back all you have to do is read up on the bits you want. I think it’s amazing that for me the best distros are still community ones.

    interdimensionalmeme , (edited )

    LFS is the linux pilgrimage that turns noobs into greybeards. Whrn it work uou erase it and install debian.

    AnUnusualRelic ,
    @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

    I run Tumbleweed btw.

    pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

    MINT, MINT , MINT

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