welcome in the cat friendly penguin group
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.
haha imagine having to wait for an update to break your system (i use arch, and tried to config limine snapper sync)
once had arch, once cachy os, in both the cases after few weeks something was broken after update (libreoffice, matlab)
never again
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.
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.
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
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.
I distro hopped for a week, and it was the little things that were dealbreakers.
I love Mint. Mint is love.
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!
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.
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?
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).
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.
I put a lot of will strength to not downvote this.
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.
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
No. They are not up to it. It’s the #1 distro on Lemmy and it shouldn’t be.
To be clear the only distro I hate is Manjaro, mint I only think about when people here remind me it’s popular. Downvote away, your oppinion is meaningless.
Manjaro is a very good Distro
Certified
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
derangementabsurd.And thankfully you will never work any real security job
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.
Why is Mint less secure than other general purpose distros?
Not particularly now days but it’s lower hanging fruit than anything with paid maintainers
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.
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.
May I introduce you to OpenBSD? Where uptime is measured in years.
Calm down Satan
No, the devil’s OS is FreeBSD
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.
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.
But have you considered paying for linux pro extreme max?
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.
That was the whole Redhat business model when they just started.
You can pay me, I got you fam
thats why i use linux too
Bazzite has pretty much been this for me for the past couple years
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.
Hacker: Skipper
Programmer: Kowalski
Arch User/Gentoo User: Rico
Cat: PrivateDon’t worry, we’ll protect you
Those penguins appear to be Gentoo penguins, so in a way only one belongs
I bet OP wouldn’t even know if gentoo, chinstrap and adelie are penguins or linux distros
Adelle Linux? I thought there was only Hannah Montana Linux?
No no its a lively neighborhood, Rebecca Black Linux is also there.
Gotta Update on Friday 🎵
Cat.
touch
man touch :)
Cat.
Tbh as an Arch (btw) user I’m not really some magic computer wizard, I struggle with basic python, I often forget command arguments (I take heavy advantage of fish but sometimes it doesn’t know the arguments either), I don’t know how to do much scripting, I don’t make my own config files, and my de is cosmic. Remember that most advanced Linux users are less advanced than people think (occasionally less advanced than even they think).
Ha, this is basically me. Still wouldn’t recommend rolling release to newbies, but my Linux knowledge is basic at best, and I’ve still used Arch for 8 years without many issues.
The closest thing to a programming language that i know is html. Messed around with bash once. Love arch
Where my debian as desktop homies at?
Still waking up and making breakfast. They’re perpetually 5 hours late.
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.
Not trying to win contests. Just glad it ain’t winders.
Marduk I don’t know why you chose your username but it is my favorite of all the Mesopotamian/Babylonian I forget gods so I love it when I see your name pop up. First prize! :3
I’ve used it forever. 90’s or early 00’s. Started with pazuzu from i think final fantasy or similar game.
Then was thinking of ancient gods as well. Fight between Marduk and tiamat.
Just stayed with that.
Well glad i can bring happiness where i can. Have a great day.
Sure, arch has a steep learning curve, but in the long run easier to use than others since it has better documentation.
Since you’re already doing a fresh install, might as well create the root partition as a BTRFS with opensuse-style subvolumes for easy snapshotting and rollback. And since you’re so close might as well also add LUKS1 encryption across the partition, since TPM is untrustworthy for REAL security. You’re going to be using a grub config with rd.luks params and a protected keyfile so you don’t have to decrypt the partition twice per boot like some scrub, of course.
Of course, technically there is nothing wrong just a plain arch install as long you’ve devised a proper opsec strategy, alongside daily, weekly and monthly full-disk offsite encrypted backups!
And yes indeed, Arch linux is the distro that was ordained to me!
Arch forces you to learn about Linux internals and components. Most people don’t need to know these things to work productively with their computers. Arch is more of an „build your own OS“ toolkit than a well defined base operating system. Two Arch installs can be more wildly different to use than Fedora and Ubuntu. That’s why you need the mountains of documentation. Arch wiki is great, but it’s not perfect or correct. Lots of outdated info lingers there as well.
BTRFS with subvolumes is they way to go, I agree. Mint sadly still defaults to EXT4 with only an encrypted /home. I installed Mint recently and a modern partition setup like you describe was difficult to get working. I don’t even remember, what I ended up with.
security
The AUR is a security nightmare.
easy snapshotting and rollback
That‘s an area Mint is pretty weak in.
OpenSuSE
Makes fantastic distros, that more people should use.
The AUR is no more a security nightmare than Linux itself. Much of it is built by god knows who, and the fact that code is inspectable, doesn’t mean it is.
All roads lead to Debian. Except for Gentoo and Slackware. Those are deadends.
A few times per year I distrohop, but there’s always small glitches in every distro I try, except for Debian. At least on my laptop, Debian just works.
I daily drive FreeBSD and have tinkered with Plan 9 and Haiku.
My Linux desktop (for gaming, DRM, and Linux-specific stuff), my wife’s laptop, the kids’ laptops, and our two media PCs all run Mint. It’s great.
As an Arch user: welcome! It’ll be a little work, but you’re gonna be a-okay.
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.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Mint Debian based these days?
Ubuntu is Debian based, so yes.
Regular Mint is based off of Ubuntu, which is Debian based itself. However, it is somewhat beholden to the Ubuntu way of doing things.
They do have a version that uses a plain Debian base, so they’re not reliant on Canonical. That version is LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).
i thougt its both, because they have a debian version
