The article states that you can’t link your phone to Linux Mint like you can on Windows or Mac.
Huh?
You certainly can. I think part of this perception comes from this idea that you’re stuck with the same desktop environment or utilities that came with the system, whereas on Linux you can completely reinstall things you didn’t even know were options from the Windows World.
For example, I can run Gnome and use the KDE connect application if I want to.
To some users, if the system doesn’t recommend the use case or hold your hand through it, they confuse that with being impossible.
It’s valuable to see comments like this, though. You could claim it’s ignorance on the part of the writer, but a better takeaway is that Linux doesn’t do a good job of explaining how it works. This could have been prevented with some kind of post-install documentation explaining exactly what you just posted, for example. The “New To Linux” experience is really not great if you don’t have online communities or external-to-the-OS resources to reference to find out things like this. I went quite a long time after making the switch before really understanding that the desktop environment is largely independent from the OS and how the two relate.
On that note, having multiple desktop environments available to “demo” on the live USB pre-install would help massively. Hearing “Oh, there’s X desktop environments to choose from!” isn’t useful if you don’t know what the difference is or which one you prefer, and online resources aren’t particularly helpful if you’re coming to Linux from another OS. Fuck anyone who installs, say, CachyOS that has what, like 15-20 options? rather than 3 for Mint.
And there is an extension for GNOME shell called GSconnect using kdeconnect protocol. But I understand there’s none called Linux mint so it’s not as easy for discoverability.
You can run kde connect on Mint Cinnamon without problems too
Bullshit
KDE connect has finally been working well for years now
I wouldn’t say bullshit
KDE connect is fairly obscure
Comes by default on KDE.
The article in question is about Linux Mint
Its been a while since I had mint, but I remember Mint coming with KDE, as I’ve never used anything but KDE
I don’t believe it has ever shipped KDE
I believe it has as I have used it and I have never used anything that was not KDE
AirDrop/Quick-share FOSS alternative to transfer files across cross-platforms (LocalSend): https://localsend.org/
LocalSend is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
It’s free and open source, source code is here: https://github.com/localsend/localsend
It’s true. Sort of ;) Tried connecting my openSUSE with my Android phone today.
https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/issues/2116
Supposedly fixed and merged but not released yet. I decided to wait.
Also,
it doesn’t run some major software, such as Adobe Creative Cloud or Microsoft 365 desktop apps.
I don’t use it, but I’ve heard Adobe CC can work now. Microsoft Office also still works for me with CrossOver, although they’ve just given up on support for it. Sure, these are much more nitpick things, but I think the author could’ve at least done some research.
I have used every Linux distribution for the past 20 years. I stayed with Linux Mint because it’s up to date, pretty but simple, and reminds of Windows 98/2000, i.e. no fluff.
A good reminder that most versions of Linux now have a live ISO version that doesn’t require you to install it and destroy your computer in the process.
Also use Lutris to easily test multiple distros
It’s so awesome to see linux getting more and more media attention. I hope it helps grow the userbase
Let’s get it to 6% on steam!
Curious that Ubuntu seems to get passed over in discussions/publications, yet is the largest install base (I seem to recall reading, open to contradicting info)
Not curious, Canonical is widely seen as antithetical to open source ethos. But it is stable and has put in a lot of work for vendor support, which is why so many distros (including Mint) are downstream derivatives from Ubuntu.
Yep. Purely for interface simplicity mint is gonna feel a lot more familiar to people fleeing windows. Yes Ubuntu can install the same DE or even KDE. But it’s not the default. And that confuses people.
This is why I think Kubuntu is a better suggestion than Ubuntu, and also Discover is better than the Ubuntu Software Center anyways and it makes it easy to avoid Snaps and does a good job managing Flatpaks.
For family I’ve been pushing Bazaar. Depending on distro, discover can be lacking on integration. Updating some packages but not others. If your distro does flatpak, and it does. It’s click bang done most of the time. No PPAs, or several user/community repos to cock you up randomly.
Personally I like native and rolling release. But I’ve been using Linux for 30 plus years. When you just need it to work and be a relatively recent release. Can’t argue with results.
I haven’t tried Bazaar
My biggest gripe about it is it uses gtk. Other than that it’s fantastic. It’s an awesome way to discover and keep your flatpaks up to date.
It’s an awesome way to discover
discover
I see what you did there
But it is stable and has put in a lot of work for vendor support, which is why so many distros (including Mint) are downstream derivatives from Ubuntu.
which is why I’m on LMDE
It used to be the largest, a few years ago. It used to be among the best, a few years before that. It’s still pretty good, but no longer suitable for everyone like it was in the old days.
Ubuntu is not great due to Canonicals choices. However I do wonder if they have more enterprise/business install base.
Ubuntu was great 15 years ago
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I’ve used Mint for a while and then I started getting curious about all these sexy Arch setups. I was intimidated with the install process though, so I tried out CachyOS and Endeavour. I ended up staying with the latter. It’s got that bleeding edge Arch flavour while easing you into it. I prefer Endeavour’s approach (we’ll help you learn) to CachyOS’s one (it just works).
