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  • ratemisia@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Question: What is Linux misinformation?
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    2 months ago

    I think your heart’s in the right place here, but it comes across as an over-generalization to say that no one in the Linux community will try to convert you. Whether they have any valid points or will be successful in doing so is a very different matter. I’d argue that much of the FSF’s official website is dedicated to exactly this, and even they can often come across as endorsing the attitude of moral superiority that Linux users are often mocked for IMO. (I’m a Linux user, but I believe this is a serious issue in our community that we need to take seriously.)

  • ratemisia@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Sometimes it has its own problems, but it doesn't mean that it's not great
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    2 months ago

    I’ve been using Mint for a year or two now, but if/when I “upgrade” so to speak to something with more control, I plan to get EOS. Arch is a bit much for me right now and openSUSE and Manjaro borked right away when I tried them (though to be fair, so did Mint-my hardware was too snazzy and I needed to update to the latest kernel to get everything working). But the control Arch offers is tempting, and EOS with KDE would suit me nicely. The best thing about Linux IMO is that you have choices about what you run; you don’t have to use any one distro, because no one can really force you to.

  • ratemisia@lemmy.worldOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•New Linux user, here is my use case. Distro recommendations?
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    4 months ago

    Hey, sorry for not seeing this! I decided to try UBlue Aurora because I love KDE and wanted to try something with it for work. I didn’t get Bazzite for obvious reasons (no intention to game), but I picked something else in the same family because I was considering trying Bazzite for my main computer at the time. However, I don’t think I’ll be trying to fix what’s not broken - Mint (Cinnamon) has been growing on me quite a lot since I posted this!

    If there were a KDE implementation of Linux Mint available, I would probably jump on it for all my machines (finally, an excuse to use Warpinator!) but I know there’s no officially endorsed one right now, and am not aware of any analogous distros… unless you count Kubuntu, I guess, but then I’d be missing a lot of those Mint features I’ve grown to love! Cheers to anyone else who’s hopped from Mint because of this thread, though. :)