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[-] rodbiren@midwest.social 10 points 4 months ago

Mint is still basically mint from several years ago. Having tried a dizzying array of them it continues to be easy and hated on because it doesn't involve text based configing your life away. That said, because it lags behind compared to other distros in updating the kernel, the thing that makes new hardware work, it can have a hard time with things made recently. Try the edge ISO, which has a newer kernel. The team is working on more frequent updates, Wayland (a thing you ideally never have to ever know what it is), and just delivers a comfortable desktop experience since I first screwed up my computers with Linux in 2007.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Is LMDE easy tok? Snaps scare me. (I have Nvidia 30xx btw.)

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Neither version of Mint use Snaps.

[-] rodbiren@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

The Ubuntu version is still probably the best. You won't have to think about graphics drivers or printers. It all sort of just... Works. They rip the awful out of Ubuntu and keep the excellent, world class, support in place. You'd be hard pressed for find a better commercial and non-commercial support. You can easily search for any problems you do run into and there will not be some esoteric DISCORD as your support. There are countless forms with literally thousands of people probably somewhat knowledgeable on how to address issues. Things like CUDA and dev work are also extremely supported. My barometer is how much time I have to crap away to get a printer and scanner work. Both of which just work with Linux Mint out of the box.

[-] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

when i used mint, the things that would perfectly solve all my issues without any of them returning ever were 11 year old youtube videos with 1k views. mint community is the best /srs

[-] Zink@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Mint uses the good parts of Ubuntu without the bad parts.

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