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JargonWagon ,

hell yeah mint

Zink ,

I use Fedora more (at work) but I love the concept and execution of Mint. I’ll definitely use it on future personal machines.

I’m not an expert on distros, but it seems to me like the best drop-in replacement for Windows. It’s familiar for windows users, but it feels much better to use. That combination is great for getting normal people to consider using it.

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.

funkajunk ,
@funkajunk@lemm.ee avatar

I used archinstall to setup my laptop with Gnome and only use pamac-nosnap for package management (flatpak is fine, but fuck snaps).

I made the most noob Arch install ever and I love it.

Lifter ,

Noobs don’t know to avoid snaps… But that setup wpuld be good to recommend if a noob really needs to use arch, btw.

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.

randon31415 ,

I thought they closed down Mint to get people to sign up for Credit Karma?

jelloeater85 ,
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

They did! I switched to Monarch, it’s REALLY nice. They even have a feature tracker for ones they are working on AFAIK.

Quills ,
@Quills@sh.itjust.works avatar

Wait what?

LonelyNematocyst ,

After googling, I think that was a joke about an unrelated app.

FractalsInfinite ,

They seem to be talking about the budgeting app “Mint” as opposed to the Linux OS. Linux Mint isn’t going away any time soon.

Quills ,
@Quills@sh.itjust.works avatar

Ooh haha, that really confused me there, thanks for the explanation!

traches ,

Been using arch + sway + neovim for 5 years now. Everyone says it’s the “I spend more time fucking with configs than getting work done” setup but then why does my dotfiles repo look like this?

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/3528df1a-05e2-4bd1-987f-53c80562bb6d.png

dustyData ,

Wow, I’ve been using Linux Mint for 5 years. I don’t have nor do I need a dotfile repo.

Woovie ,

Big “I don’t even think of you” energy. I’m here for it.

SendMePhotos ,

Lmao

… But… What is a dot file repo? I just want to play games and do homework.

runeko ,
@runeko@programming.dev avatar

Configuration files: freecodecamp.org/…/dotfiles-what-is-a-dot-file-an…

MigratingtoLemmy ,

If you use vim and/or tmux you’ll commit a lot to your dotfiles initially, but after you reach a stable configuration that you like you won’t be changing much

dustyData ,

I don’t use vim nor do I use tmux.

MigratingtoLemmy ,

If you don’t use software that needs configuration then you don’t need dotfiles

traches ,

Neither do I, but it’s nice to have the same settings on my desktop and laptop

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.

Adanisi ,
@Adanisi@lemmy.zip avatar

Debian FTW

growingentropy ,

Two choices in the end game.

Ready to go out of the box? Mint.

Bare install where you pick your programs? Debian.

And then there’s the secondary question for some of us… the machine you game on?

Ready to go? Fedora, Pop, or several other choices.

Bare install where you pick your programs? Arch.

AnUnusualRelic ,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

I run Tumbleweed btw.

Presi300 ,
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

I love mint, but man do I want them to hurry up with their wayland support

Rolive ,

Wayland is a ton of issues for me. But that was my fault for buying a laptop with an nVidia card. Never again.

UnfortunateShort ,

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

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.

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.

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

MINT, MINT , MINT

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