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People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome? (lemmy.ca)
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[-] rozodru@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago

I only just switched to Linux this past week and I use Mint. It was suggested to me by someone here on lemmy. It was easy to set up, customize, and get all my stuff working on it. I have World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XIV, Elden Ring and a few other games all working on it. The only issue, and right now it's a minor one, I'm having is the 535 nividia drivers can cause random stutters/lag every now and then but nothing major.

My point is for people like me who are new to linux and don't want to get overwhelmed I think Mint is great. I know eventually i'll change to a different more "advanced" distro, right now I have my eye on CachyOS, but I don't think I'm there quite yet to confidently install it.

[-] confuser@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago

came here to spread the good word of endeavor os

[-] techarmy@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

It’s my favourite distro because of three reasons.

  1. Arch worth lightweight with minimal QOL improvement
  2. best user community 3 ) who doesn’t like space theme distro?? lol

I just setup on my T480 with BTRFS and BTRFS-Assistant and snapper last night. It’s working well

[-] confuser@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

I refuse to use anything that isnt arch based unless its a niche linux distribution for something specific because the arch user repository basically solves the biggest issue for newbies which is getting a grasp of packages for software. it has any of the common software and if you do need to build something from a github repo, that is ofc easy enough on any distro. I'm not the most technically inclined with linux and I use a chatgpt got thingy called code copilot in their search thing and I can use it to solve even really niche problems I have like a USB DAC not being recognized because it doesn't have the correct read/write permissions. most of the time I just ask basic things like how to get whatever github repo working and it helps me troubleshoot if I run into weird issues. I even got it to help me set up neo-matrix to run in alacrity terminal on bootup, it was a nice introduction to scripting and autostart and stuff when it helped me, so now I have a little bit better grasp on how that all works out.

[-] bitman09@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

I agree with @trolololol@lemmy.world here. Could you describe what issues are people having? What is their user profile (programmers, writers, ...)?

[-] bluewing@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

You think LM being "too old" is a problem for newbies? I've been running some distro or other since RedHat 5. I it took me 6 weeks of waiting for Fedora to sort out most of the issues, (and I STILL have some minor ghosting issues and I ain't no gamer), and 4 tries to get Fedora 40 to successfully take the nVidia drivers for the GTX1650 chipset in my laptop.

You think a new wannbe convert is going to put up with that?

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 135 points 1 week ago

These thumbnails are also the reason why people stay away from Linux. How is the little girl relevant to your question?

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The average person finds these creepy, and so you'll keep the average person away.

I personally don't get it either, it does look like a 6 year old girl to me and it seems completely off-topic, but I don't question it so long as it's not sexual in nature.

[-] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 87 points 1 week ago

Couldn't possibly agree more. One of the biggest barriers to sharing my enthusiasm for Linux with my friends is filtering out all of the cringey anime weeb shit that somehow gets posted along with it. Why does open source software need to be associated with creepy drawings of little girls? Absolutely the worst vibes.

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