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  • Creat ( Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
    22·
    11 months ago

    Please stop recommending mint. These days now modern alternatives are just better, especially when they might want to game even just a bit. But it’s not just shut taking, mint is kind of stuck in the past for a lot of things.

          • Creat ( Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
            4·
            11 months ago

            All major Linux distributions are roughly equally trivial to install these days. Mint is actually harder due to the relatively old kernel at least having more potential for lacking hardware support causing issues. The actual process is get similar for most of them.

            Frankly the installation isn’t what is likely to cause issues for most people. But something breaking down the line, or wanting a new something (at adding app/functionality/running Windows program/…). How hard/easy it is for them to figure out how to fix that.

          • prole ( prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
            4·
            11 months ago

            I can only speak to Bazzite, but it’s super easy to install. GUI installer, walks you through it step by step.

            People might say that you are restricted with Bazzite, but that isn’t really true. You can do pretty much anything you can do on an non-immutable OS, it’s just a different process. You just use rpm-ostree instead of dnf. Tons of shit on google if you search.

      • epicshepich ( epicshepich@programming.dev ) 
        1·
        11 months ago

        I’ve been daily driving Mint for about 2 years now and I still love it. I do a lot of work with Python including some data science, and it works well for all that. The one bug I can’t deal with is the fact that fractional scaling causes screen tearing in the Cinnamon DE because it still uses X. Because of this, I use Nobara on my gaming PC. My experience with Nobara has been that every update is a coin flip on whether or not I’ll get a new bug, but they’re mostly just minor inconveniences. Otherwise I like it a lot.

  • RipLemmDotEE ( RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today ) 
    11·
    11 months ago

    Weirdly I’ve never been able to get the installation media for Mint to boot, but that’s fine because it led me through a few other distros that helped me learn what I was doing with Linux.

    Now I’ve been happily using Garuda with KDE for more than 6 months with no issues.

  • entwine ( entwine@programming.dev ) 
    7·
    11 months ago

    Stop recommending Mint, especially to beginners. Ubuntu, Fedora, and Bazzite are all better for first time users because they actually work, they have much larger support networks, and are overall much higher quality with a focus on basic reliability.

  • ryper ( ryper@lemmy.ca ) English
    4·
    11 months ago

    Maybe I’m just picky, but I think Mint replacing the standard Firefox icon should lower its place on the list of distros for people coming from Windows. Out of their preinstalled applications, Firefox is the one a Windows user is probably the most likely to be familiar with, and out-of-the-box they’ve got it pinned to the taskbar with an icon that a Windows user won’t recognize. There’s so many other distros where a Windows user can log in and clearly spot Firefox.