• lengau@midwest.social
      8·
      8 months ago

      Seriously… At SCaLE this year I saw people from various distro booths taking breaks and visiting other distro booths. Each time they looked genuinely interested and excited about what the other distro was doing.

        • lengau@midwest.social
          4·
          8 months ago

          I kinda feel like there’s very little overlap between distro fans and distro developers. Probably because distro devs tend to know all the dirty secrets of their distro.

          You go on Reddit or wherever and it’s all “distro X is evil, use distro Y instead,” “No, Y is terrible! Use Z!” And then you sit at a table with a SuSE developer, a Fedora developer and an Ubuntu developer and the conversation is all “so how are you guys dealing with this issue?” “Oh, I think we came up with a great solution, I’ll share the patch set with you!” “Wonderful, thanks! By the way I opened up a merge request on your stuff because we figured out how to fix that namespaces issue.”

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 months ago

      Capitalism thrives on exclusivity, teaching people that others doing the same thing is competition and not friendship.

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
    21·
    8 months ago

    The true Linux users are the ones that realize that all Linux is the same. The only differences is package management, Desktop Environment, and customization by the Distro creator.

    You can literally just install Debian stable with Cinnamon DE and get basically Linux Mint on Debian. Bonus points for adding backports so you get a slightly more updated kernel.

    I know this is a joke, but you should use whatever distro you want to use…because at the end of the day it’s all Linux.

  • DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    8 months ago

    I see more posts complaining about annoying arch users than I actually see annoying arch users

    That being said, hell yeah mint

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    12·
    8 months ago

    Read this and your brain might get a new wrinkle: it’s possible to appreciate multiple distributions for their own merits.

  • Ilflish@lemm.ee
    9·
    8 months ago

    The only way to win the argument is to come up with an association that has nothing to do with computers at all.

    I use Linux Mint because I like Mint Ice Cream

    • Rolivers@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      Wayland is a ton of issues for me. But that was my fault for buying a laptop with an nVidia card. Never again.

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
    5·
    8 months ago

    Well, I’m still in the noob stage and i intend to stay there. My OS is just a means to an end and Mint is perfect for that.

    • Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social
      1·
      8 months ago

      Saaaame. Been using Mint almost exclusively for 5-10 yrs and i still feel like im playing in the wading pool of what u can do with it. I learn more as I need to, and generally enjoy that process. I always feel super satisfied with myself when i use the terminal, even if its sudo apt-get install Firefox.

  • Zink@programming.dev
    3·
    8 months ago

    I use Fedora more (at work) but I love the concept and execution of Mint. I’ll definitely use it on future personal machines.

    I’m not an expert on distros, but it seems to me like the best drop-in replacement for Windows. It’s familiar for windows users, but it feels much better to use. That combination is great for getting normal people to consider using it.

  • funkajunk@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    I used archinstall to setup my laptop with Gnome and only use pamac-nosnap for package management (flatpak is fine, but fuck snaps).

    I made the most noob Arch install ever and I love it.

    • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      8 months ago

      Noobs don’t know to avoid snaps… But that setup wpuld be good to recommend if a noob really needs to use arch, btw.

    • growingentropy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      8 months ago

      Two choices in the end game.

      Ready to go out of the box? Mint.

      Bare install where you pick your programs? Debian.

      And then there’s the secondary question for some of us… the machine you game on?

      Ready to go? Fedora, Pop, or several other choices.

      Bare install where you pick your programs? Arch.

  • traches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    Been using arch + sway + neovim for 5 years now. Everyone says it’s the “I spend more time fucking with configs than getting work done” setup but then why does my dotfiles repo look like this?