After spending the last year with Linux Mint 21.1 and 21.2, there's some very specific reasons that Mint continues to excel and grow where other distros fail...
  • Eopia@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It was my first distro I liked it at the time, but after they killed of the KDE Edition I tried out Manjaro and the rolling release with up to date software just fits my use case much better.

  • Sh1ft@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I have used some distros by now and I do love mint. But a few years back every major upgrade of mint lead to bugs and me reinstalling my system. So far the only Distro i tried that just keeps working is MX Linux on my old laptop.

    Because I want to get rid of windows I installed Nobara. I love to play games. I works pretty good, but since only one guy ist maintaining it, it should be not considered a daily driver.

    I am still not happy because it dont want to switch between distros for gaming and working.

    • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Mint is for people who just want stuff to work and not fiddle about too much. It does that very well. Anyone who simply wants an alternative to Windows that is easy to get into and use will be perfectly happy with it. If you want to customise everything to a t, Mint isn’t for you

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I too think Cinnamon is a pretty great Experience. I am using KDE and heard from many people that it feels better, its more unified and has way more features.

    Wayland is important for security, and Mint will need a long time to adopt that. There are already apps only running on Wayland for reasons.

    KDE is a bit unstable as its a huge project. I hope that will get better in Plasma 6.

    I sure wish to have something like KDE more stable. But once you are used to it, its just better. Things that are not there yet on Mint are on KDE since years.

    Its a bit of a mess as its so old. Extensions need to be cleaned up. But like, Dolphin extensions are so great, I dont know an equivalent on Cinnamon.

    Also the distro model is the standard one. A Fedora Atomic Cinnamon variant, with modern presets and everything working, would be a great thing to install anywhere. Automatic atomic updates, easy version upgrades, transparent system changes and resets being just one command away.

    • comicallycluttered@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      You can get a Cinnamon image via U-Blue.

      U-Blue in general is a nice collection of images because not only are there various unofficial options, but a lot of things like RPMFusion, etc. are preconfigured in their versions of the main editions (SilverBlue, Kinoite, Sericea, Onyx).

      Or you can just rebase regular SilverBlue (or one of the three other official variants) to one of those images if you’re running it already. Can roll back if you don’t like it.

      I doubt there’ll be an official edition until Cinnamon has full Wayland support since Fedora is going all in on that now.

      In the meantime, the community has it covered.

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Right! I have to try that.

        Personally I dont care for cinnamon, but it is easy for users and ublue is great.

        My personal wishlists are a Fedora-based TV OS, a hardened version and a rawhide kde 6 one