• massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 个月前

      F-that! Take pride… Mint is ridiculously good. Well managed, stable, “just works” and yet has all the capabilities you want, including auto-running near the edge for current kernels (backed down to stable) without doing jack. You can run at the bleeding edge if you want to manage it yourself.

      And for any haters - here’s my take: I’ve been working with Unix for 30+ years, I installed Slackware off of floppies when 16MB of RAM was god-like. I have built, compiled and managed nearly every distro at some point certainly the upstream giants. I’ve been there for the birth of all of them. I’ve also professionally worked on AIX, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX. Yes there’s a lot of fun in maintaining and running things to your satisfaction, but when you hit a certain inflection point of balancing your real life and maintaining distros across multiple machines and decide “This is the way” - Mint just fits the bill on so many levels.

      Mint is the bomb and I’m done pretending. Fight me (not you, OP, you’re cool)

      • mihnt@lemmy.ca
        5·
        4 个月前

        20+ year Linux user here. Fuck it, I ain’t got time to manage dumb shit. Install and go, please.

        Though I am curious about LMDE.

      • Synth@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        22 天前

        I love how wholesale that got ^^;; I tell all my friends who’re switching basically the same thing. Linux is Linux and as long as works for you, it’s well maintained, and does what you need it to then don’t fix that’s not broken (unless you’re distro hopping then let the chaos ensue)

      • sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
        1·
        4 个月前

        I’ve got to admit, I do love Mint. I’ve thought about hopping, but I’ve never had a serious problem with Mint (that wasn’t my own fault) so I’ve never really had the motivation.

    • Owljfien@lemm.ee
      3·
      4 个月前

      All my homies love mint, just because it’s friendly doesn’t mean it’s bad!

    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 个月前

      Mint is the basic bitch of distros. Sure she shows up in fugly ugs, leggings, gripping a pumpkin spice drank. But she shows up! Works hard. That girl fucks! Make no mistake, basic bitches make the world go round.

      Mint is the shit!

    • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 个月前

      the only objective problem mint has is that it’s so good I struggle to get people I convinced to install it to be interested in other distros and stuff. And that’s fine.

      Mint is a solid choice and the one I recommend to anyone who just wants something that works or doesn’t care about having several choices, and even when someone wants to explore more options I always include Mint. It just works, it’s easy to install that even my non-tech savvy mother on a phone call with me managed to install it and Cinnamon has just enough customization options ootb to make it yours without being overwhelming to a noob like KDE.

      I personally don’t use it cause I am not the biggest fan of using GUIs, debian derivatives and I prefer KDE plasma so I just go with other options (currently Fedora 40, been using Arch and NixOS a lot before this), however even in my case I could most likely turn LM into what I want with some effort (I just don’t see the point in doing that), and my father who has been using Linux since Kernel 1.0 and is definitely a power user swears by it.

  • greencactus@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 个月前

    Ubuntu actually. I hated Ubuntu for a long time, until there was a game which only ran on Ubuntu. And now, after installing it, I’m actually pretty impressed and like it a lot. Yaru is a very good-looking theme, and the customizations Ubuntu made to stock GNOME are actually pretty logical (like adding windows buttons). It has among the best documentation and package support in the whole Linux universe. I’m a guy who likes to tinker, but for whom it is more important that the PC runs well, and I haven’t encountered a single problem with Ubuntu yet - no kernel panic, no weird Bluetooth stuff, no apps which don’t run for some reason,…

    Everything just works. And that makes me happy. So Ubuntu it is.

    • imaging2162@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 个月前

      My first try at linux was ubuntu 8 on a 2008 or 09 Lenovo idea pad. I left linux shortly after for windows based products for a little while for mostly pc gaming. After learning more about the current state of linux in 2022 i return to Ubuntu long term release and I’m very impressed with how well it works.

      I have been tinkering with different things like large language models and a few other tools which has caused me issues with graphics drivers recently but overall it works well every time

  • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    4 个月前

    Endeavour, fixing issues is easy enough.

    Yes I have the arch logo as a wallpaper of my PC and my phone why do you ask?

    • hswolf@lemmy.world
      0·
      3 个月前

      hell yeah, endeavour is such an underrated arch distro, almost plug and play

      running kde?

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 个月前

        Yep, I’ll admit that I kind of gnomified it with the super button opening the overview (not slow since 6.0), but that’s kind of the point of KDE, we can do what we want.

  • D1m1tri@ani.social
    1·
    3 个月前

    Void! I used arch btw for quite a while, but then decided to switch and I don’t regret nothing… Except the docs, the docs aren’t very good. I’m also running debian 12 on my home server, and it has been a good experience

  • xycu@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    3 个月前

    Gentoo for the last 20+ years. Slackware before that.

    Ran something or other off dual floppy drives at some point in the ancient times… A boot diskette and a root diskette.