• Agent641@lemmy.world
    54·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • rbos@lemmy.caEnglish
      25·
      5 days ago

      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.

    • shameless@lemmy.world
      151·
      5 days ago

      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.

      • night_petal@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        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.

      • Agent641@lemmy.world
        9·
        5 days ago

        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.

    • IratePirate@feddit.org
      1·
      4 days ago

      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.

  • 33550336@lemmy.world
    674·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • festnt@sh.itjust.works
      40·
      6 days ago

      haha imagine having to wait for an update to break your system (i use arch, and tried to config limine snapper sync)

      • 33550336@lemmy.world
        82·
        5 days ago

        once had arch, once cachy os, in both the cases after few weeks something was broken after update (libreoffice, matlab)

        never again

        • festnt@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          5 days ago

          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

          • 33550336@lemmy.world
            1·
            5 days ago

            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.

        • maccentric@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          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.

          • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            4 days ago

            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.

      • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        13·
        5 days ago

        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!

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        4 days ago

        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?

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          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).

    • redsand@infosec.pub
      12·
      5 days ago

      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.

        • redsand@infosec.pub
          1·
          4 days ago

          Not particularly now days but it’s lower hanging fruit than anything with paid maintainers

        • redsand@infosec.pub
          26·
          5 days ago

          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.

          • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            4 days ago

            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.

          • moonshadow@slrpnk.net
            31·
            5 days ago

            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

          • 33550336@lemmy.world
            21·
            5 days ago

            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 derangement absurd.

  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
    9·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    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.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    24·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      6 days ago

      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 man command is still in there but Cinnamon is supposed to speak for itself.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
        2·
        5 days ago

        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.

    • Art3mis@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 days ago

      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

        • Art3mis@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 days ago

          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

          • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
            1·
            5 days ago

            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.

            • Art3mis@lemmy.world
              1·
              5 days ago

              Nope, it felt too closed for me anyways. I like arch a lot more. I have had next to no issues.

    • Pat@feddit.nu
      8·
      5 days ago

      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.