Linux mint = best beginner distro

But new users don't even know what snaps are. They don't care. We care because we are crazy bastards

I recently started using Mint after years on Debian.

I may be weird here, but it has quickly become my favorite distro.

It's snappy and super user-friendly, plus it's been de-Ubuntu-d. Out of the box Flatpak support is just nice to have, and Cinnamon is a sweet de.

Jokes aside, this kind of gatekeeping behavior is what gives Linux a bad name. Also, you don't have to be a beginner to love Linux Mint.

There's actually linux mint debian edition rather than ubuntu edition

https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

I was running Linux Mint until the other day when I found out Linux Mint Debian Edition existed so I installed that. I'm a recent Linux convert and I can safely say that Lemmy might have partially been the reason. I've been loving it so far.

Mint is great. I love it when shit just works.

Quit Linux? More like quit [non-server revisions of] Ubuntu... Besides, I somehow have an impression that preinstalled crap is among the popular reasons to why ppl leave windows

All the talk of Mint lately. Looks like my fifteen-year Ubuntu streak may be coming to an end. Will I, decidedly not a power-user just an Internet browser, occasional game player, Csound programmer, Libreoffice user notice a difference? Is Mint better at printing? That's the only real problem I've had with Ubuntu over the years.

Out of the mainstream distros what might end up getting bought by Google or even Microsoft, Ubuntu seems like the most likely candidate.

I mean, RedHat was once the even more likely candidate, but

Snaps:

On server = good

On PC = bad

You don't have to be a beginner to love Mint. I am very happy that they are putting more energy into the Debian edition. I've tried lots of other distros over the years, and I am just comfortable in Mint.

Linux Mint has a Debian edition available, I'm curious about that one.

Still using Mint, see no reason to change

Best distro imo right now for desktop. Fedora a close second.

Others like Arch are great too but more for enthusiasts.

What are snaps and telemetry?

Mint with Maté gets no love but it's so fucking great.

And both of them are just remixes of Debian. So why not just use the base distro for all of them?

LMDE and Flatpaks for daily apps.

I like the idea of switching to Linux to break the strangle of windows on my hardware but I don't know if all my games on Steam, Wargamings launcher and Automatic1111 will work properly if I made that switch. I installed Mint for a friend because I'm semi-literate and feel like messing with that....cmd window "terminal" to do...literally anything installation wise would get irritating.

I want a Linux that is as easy to use out of the box as windows. Will Mint be that way or will I have to spend 5 hours figuring out special words for commands any time I want to install something?

Serious question , my laptop is getting old. 7-8, years now I don't want to put money in tech for w new one. I want to use it with Linux , as I just use for very Norma stuff and Zero gaming. My use cases will be use of office, use if browsers, simple image editors, pdf reader and manipulation, copying images from to and from HDD , copying media to HDD etc. Connecting iPhone, android for file uploading download etc.

I don't want hassle of

1. Find a reaposiroty, install an extra ackages except for softwares
2. Give any command viq terminal. 3.find any dependency for ANYTHING
3. Use it as regular person

What Linux will just work? I mean simple install and start using.

Can you opt out of snap on Ubuntu? I've heard some system and essential apps use it, so it might break stuff if you do

Let me raise you: Pop!_OS

Wait, people think anything besides an official Ubuntu flavor is leaving Linux?

linux mint is based

Why don't Windows/MacOS need snaps/flatpak?

Does Mint support arm64 yet? I would be ecstatic for a mint VM in parallels on my MacBook but last time I tried I couldn’t I don’t think. Stock Ubuntu is just.. okay but I always loved the out of box experience and look and feel of mint it was my choice for dual booting years ago on old windows laptops

I've tested over 40 Linux distributions over a long span of time, but I've never tried Mint. The reason being that all three times I've read something nice that inspired me to try it again the download hashes don't match, and we find out their servers were compromised. How's that going?

on my office machine: I have Ubuntu(23.10) in its full glory. it is a good distro. I really enjoy gnome shell with Wayland.

on my home machine: I won't let a single proprietary prpgram exist on my Debian. and the only wm would be i3(with xfce as a backup, and as a source of other common programs like terminal).

I've used mint in my university(default distro there), which I also enjoyed for its familiarity to users coming from proprietary operations systems.

my foray into GNU/Linux(from w*ndows) was thanks to Tails, which made me appreciate how different an OS can be(actually, my first computer had Ubuntu 4.10. the computer lasted for less than 2 years. hence I don't count it).

and I've also helped many friends set-up distros like zorin and peppermint.

at the end of day, no matter the distro, it's GNU/Linux. and that's all that matters.

So Mint is Ubuntu based right? If Ubuntu screws up even more doesn't that affect Mint as well?

What if I don't like the windows start bar feel of Mint?

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I’m really enjoying zorin right now.

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TBH, ElementaryOS is going to look most familiar to a lot of users.

Ubuntu, Mint, openSUSE.

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