• HexagonSun@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    5 hours ago

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

  • lmuel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    13·
    6 hours ago

    Yup, I do regular distrofuckery on my spare pc but Mint is just a rock solid option for me, great distro, feels good.

  • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    24·
    8 hours ago

    Mint has been glazed since the beginning of time. Not a single laptop or computer I have ever owned has worked out of the box with it. As opposed to alternatives like Ubuntu or Fedora. I must be the single most unlucky person in the history of Linux.

    • Zron@lemmy.world
      20·
      7 hours ago

      I’ve had the opposite experience. Mint has just worked on literally every piece of hardware I’ve ever owned.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
      8·
      7 hours ago

      Is it always a new laptop/computer?

      I’d be suspicious of Mint on anything brand new (and hence only recently fixed in a lot of packages).

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Is there any company out there that sells PCs with Linux pre-installed? I make a ton of money selling custom built PCs that have Linux pre-installed and tested.

        • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Several. System76 (the cosmic dev) is a major one, literally making the distro just for their laptops.

          They’re mostly white boxes though. I don’t any and manufacture their own hardware (except Framework possibly???)

        • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          You can find Linux models from dell lenovo and I think even hp but you gotta search for them

          There are also some specialty companies that make Linux desktops and laptops but you also gotta really seek them out

    • LumiNocta@lemmy.zip
      1·
      7 hours ago

      I used it on an HP elite X2 and everything worked, touchscreen and it’s specific screen cover/keyboard

      It’s weird tho because I didn’t expect that at all.

      • 0x0@infosec.pub
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Most distros works out of the box with that weirdly enough, only one I’ve had issues with was debian and the pen, but that worked itself out straight away after updating it

  • _stranger_@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 hours ago

    I tried Mint this weekend. Steam was broken out of the box, when it works flawlessly on Ubuntu and Manjaro on the same hardware.

  • Zink@programming.dev
    21·
    8 hours ago

    I never left!

    I think I’m just old enough, have fiddled with my PC enough times in the past, have enough other shit to do, and get enough coding and troubleshooting experience at work that I look at the quest to find my spirit distro and think “that’s a youngster’s game.”

    Or, you know, maybe Mint is already my spirit distro and I am experienced enough to not fix what isn’t broken!

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
      6·
      8 hours ago

      Ah that explains it, I no longer understand a single thing about computers or what people do with them anymore. You’ve explained it perfectly.

      And here’s the thing: I don’t even want to know. It’s not like I’m trying to understand but can’t, I just don’t care. I don’t get it.

      People with 100TB home servers, people with 3D printers and boxes filled with trash, endless upgrades for no visible change, etc

      I don’t have a single need or want that ends with “I need a new computer”.

      • Zink@programming.dev
        5·
        6 hours ago

        I completely understand the sentiment!

        I am still into some tech and “new computer” type stuff. I am about to install a bigger/faster drive in my PC and set up my Home Assistant server. That PC is already my Jellyfin server. I am also in the middle of building a brand new PC for my kid, which will also run Mint, lol.

        But I spend time only on the things that I’ve learned really matter to me, and not on all the things you’re “supposed to” mess with in your home lab that you obviously have.

        You know the meme (or meme category) where it’s a resume or linkedin profile where the recent work history goes something like Senior Network Architect, then Goose Farmer?

        I may literally have a 3D printer still in the box, and PC & networking parts all over the house, but my daily routine is embedded linux C/C++ sr developer by day and animal tender on the evenings and weekends, lol.

  • Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.org
    41·
    12 hours 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.

    • Strider@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 hours ago

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

      • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        8 hours ago

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

        I use a Mac for my server 🤓

    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
      9·
      11 hours 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
        12·
        11 hours 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
      4·
      9 hours 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 🤞