• HexagonSun@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Went back to Mint a few times but ultimately I like Plasma over Cinnamon, so Debian it is!

      • HexagonSun@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        22 days ago

        Yep. I was using Plasma on Mint for a while but the consensus was you’re best off using a DE officially supported by the distro.

        Never encountered any issues personally up to that point, but seemed to be the majority opinion when I researched it.

        But my most recent switch was from Endeavour, so made much more sense to install Debian 13 than to Install Mint and then immediately switch DE.

      • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
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        22 days ago

        I absolutely loved the release of LMDE, it’s just what I like though, the simple intuitive interface of Mint, without dealing with Canonical’s bullshit (really sour about snaps, ignore me lol).

        Edit: picked back up my phone and reread what was on the screen when I realized you probably meant desktop environment and not Debian Edition when you typed DE.

  • PointyFluff@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    An OS should GTFO and let you get on with the business of doing shit on your computer, Linux Mint does that nicely. 🐧

    • CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org
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      22 days ago

      except it doesn’t. Fixed release model quite easily gets in a way of doing shit. Need to add a PPA into config for each separate package you need the latest release of, or simply because the package itself is absent in the normal repo doesn’t help either. And don’t get me started on troubleshooting after “doing shit”.

      Something like fedora does a much better job if you prefer fixed release, but if you like to experiment and “do shit”, arch derivatives like Endeavor or Cachy are just better suited for you. All of the above also have a much nicer documentation than Mint.

        • CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org
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          21 days ago

          well, it apparently was an issue for me on Mint, when i just switched from windows.

          I might misremember things, but i believe some Microsoft stuff was inside PPA, so for someone just switching from windows it’s actually more likely to delve into the apt fuckery.

          Noob distro btw

          • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
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            21 days ago

            Well, I switched to Linux to get away from Microsoft bullshit so I never tried installing any of their stuff but I can see that being an issue for some people.

          • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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            16 days ago

            Didn’t he recently switch to something else? I forget what. Maybe I’m misremembering.

            • Allero@lemmy.today
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              16 days ago

              Didn’t hear about it, at least recently when Linus Torvals came to Linus Sebastian (aka Linus Tech Tips), they were still discussing Fedora

          • Bluewing@lemmy.world
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            21 days ago

            Only because it’s easier and faster to install new kernels with. Otherwise, I suspect he doesn’t much care about gaming or other more “normal uses.”

      • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        In the context of the comment, “do shit” is explicitly not anything to do with the OS or packages or repos.

    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
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      23 days ago

      I’ve been living with fedora (ultramarine) kde for a while now because people praised fedora so much, but i think mint still wins. and i chose ultramarine because am a noob, don’t sue me.

      there are many little things that just don’t work and i seriously can’t figure out. here’s a few: discover fails to update the system and i always have to do it manually from the terminal. wine is broken, it literally can’t run anything i throw at it that worked on mint. plasma theme customization is somewhat broken (also custom themes prevent updating…). using alt key in games run with wine causes some annoying notification sound (not in system keyboard shortcuts). often keyboard leds stay on when system suspended, system can’t be woken up from keyboard. can’t use flameshot with kb shortcut.

      this isn’t a hate comment though, a lot of things are better than i had with mint cinnamon. i do like how it’s a lot faster than mint when under heavy load, autosuspend actually works, no issues with screen not waking up. currently my media pc with mint can’t update because all sources are unavailable and it has some conflict with python3 which it won’t let me uninstall (which i suspect would be unwise, idk)

      • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        23 days ago

        I can only recommend regular Fedora because I have a feeling you just wouldn’t have those issues but I am not a doctor.

    • satanmat@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Kinoite Ride or die

      FOR ME it does the things I need it to do; and it works; and hasn’t blown up my house yet so 🤞

    • Strider@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      From the bottom of my heart fuck rolling releases. Never worked for me (nobody get worked up please, ymmv).

      • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        23 days ago

        lol it’s funny how proactively defensive everyone is about their distro choices

        I use a Mac for my server 🤓

  • Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org
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    23 days ago

    Man… I just fucking love CachyOS. I switched from Win11 a few weeks ago and up until now it is just a great experience.

  • Emi@ani.social
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    23 days ago

    I tried CachyOS and so far it’s been alright besides having bit difficulty finding software so I have stuff from multiple sources.

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      23 days ago

      Hmm? The AUR is one of the biggest pros of Arch and derivatives imo

      If the software you need is available as .deb or .rpm, you can use Distrobox. For everything else, AppImages and Flatpaks

  • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de
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    23 days ago

    There is no one reliable distro. Mint, itself is based off Ubuntu and also releases LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).

    If reliablility is measured in terms of how stable a distro is, then likely Debian with it’s conservative approach to packaging updates comes to mind (No wonder large number of distros are based off Debian only).

    I would even argue as long as someone isn’t messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon( meant to showcase KDE packages) or Linuxfx (or whatever it has renamed itself to, one of the few shady ones IMO ) or Trisquel OS (a GNU certified distro where running into dependency hell isn’t new); it will suit user’s case.

    Debian, Slackware, Void, Zorin, even rolling release like Arch (basically any one that meets the user’s use case is reliable)

    • LostWanderer@fedia.io
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      23 days ago

      Bazzite is nice, I’m running it at the moment. The gaming customizations are nice and having the latest kernel stable+NVIDIA open drivers is swell. You can even use Distroshelf (to emulate a distro) and App pass through to install apps that don’t have a Flatpak version. Or package layering, which is needed for VPNs like Mullvad to work properly; that’s also pretty easy to manage, so I never feel like I don’t have access to software. Too bad stock Fedora cannot be arsed to make NVIDIA drivers brain dead easy at the time of installation.

    • BlueAure@infosec.pub
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      23 days ago

      I’m really enjoying Bazzite for gaming and uCore for servers. It’s reassuring knowing that I can just rebase and revert to a known good state with working drivers easily. Highly recommend a try