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.
Not shown: The top 0.05% - “Use whichever distro you’re satisfied with. The different distributions exist to offer choice, not to compete.”
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.
Seriously: this non-competitive behavior in the FOSS community is soo fucking refreshing!
Almost like humans find cooperation is healthier than competition on the whole…
FOSS til i die, please.
“Don’t compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!” -Pjotr Kropotkin
Based and breadpilled.
My God I love Lemmy. Finding a Kropotkin quote in the wild? Outside of an anarchists sub? Without specifically searching for it?
It makes me feel less alone. Thank you.
Glad to be able to quote it and receive so much positive feedback :)
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.”
Capitalism thrives on exclusivity, teaching people that others doing the same thing is competition and not friendship.
I see more posts complaining about annoying arch users than I actually see annoying arch users
That being said, hell yeah mint
Arch user here. Mint is cool. Go mint!
Of course Mint is cool. If it wasn’t it’d be Spice.
I wish mint + AUR was a thing
Pacstall is AUR for Ubuntu (so UUR?) based distributions. It is certainly less complete than AUR, but still it might be useful depending on your needs.
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Manjaro user here, they’re both cool
Read this and your brain might get a new wrinkle: it’s possible to appreciate multiple distributions for their own merits.
Why didn’t you just paste a picture in the comment?
That’s more fasterCopy-pasting the image will upload it to the lemmy instance, taking up storage space. You should instead embed externally hosted images using the following markdown expression:
Yes, this way you reduce the load on your instance, but I often see image hosting deleting images and I get scared when I see an imgur link because it often blocks image viewing for me
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Nixos when you want to work on it and then it works forever ever
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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
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Well it quite literally says it in its name that it is fucking mint, why wouldn’t you run it
mmmm thin mints
I love mint, but man do I want them to hurry up with their wayland support
Wayland is a ton of issues for me. But that was my fault for buying a laptop with an nVidia card. Never again.
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.
That’s fine. Most people aren’t “Windows pros” either.
My windows have arches, BTW.
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.
hell yeah mint
Guy on the right will use Debian stable, rest is correct.
hell yeah debian
Hell Cinnamon DE is literally an install option on Debian. LOL.
Hell yeah LMDE
I just wish they had it w MATE
Yeah I agree with the sentiment, use whatever is good for you, but I feel like most advanced linux users are not using Mint. They typically come to the realization that everything is either Debian, Arch, or build it yourself so they use one of those.
Does Gentoo already count as “build yourself” on your list?
Man, might swap to Debian 12, trying it on my netbook, it’s nice.
I’m running Debian 12 for while now and it works great. Gossip says you need to get everything from flatpak because the packages are so outdated, but that’s bullshit.
I get newer packages on my netbook then my desktop running u Ubuntu 22.04.
I used
archinstallto setup my laptop with Gnome and only usepamac-nosnapfor package management (flatpak is fine, but fuck snaps).I made the most noob Arch install ever and I love it.
Noobs don’t know to avoid snaps… But that setup wpuld be good to recommend if a noob really needs to use arch, btw.
nixos ftw
Ah, End of The Linux pipeline
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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.
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.
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?
Wow, I’ve been using Linux Mint for 5 years. I don’t have nor do I need a dotfile repo.
Neither do I, but it’s nice to have the same settings on my desktop and laptop
If you use vim and/or tmux you’ll commit a lot to your dotfiles initially, but after you reach a stable configuration that you like you won’t be changing much
I don’t use vim nor do I use tmux.
If you don’t use software that needs configuration then you don’t need dotfiles
