• OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
    51·
    7 months ago

    A few months ago I finished building my system and commented that I’d installed Mint and had been enjoying it for a week. Some guy felt that he needed to suggest a different distro to me (and actually got some upvotes from people agreeing with it).

    I had JUST switched from Windows to Linux and had only been running for a week! CAN I RUN WITH ONE DISTRO FOR ONE FUCKING WEEK WITHOUT HOPPING ALL OVER THE DISTRO-SPHERE?! Holy shit. Just let me enjoy my system for 7 days without telling me I should change again.

    I was shocked someone could be so obnoxious.

    • 1984@lemmy.today
      311·
      7 months ago

      Mint is a really good choice actually. Glad you didn’t pick Ubuntu. :)

      • pivot_root@lemmy.world
        13·
        7 months ago

        Yup, it’s an excellent pick for newcomers transitioning from Windows.

        Opinionated Ubuntu and its snap bullshit, on the other hand…

    • Darkraisisi@feddit.nl
      3·
      7 months ago

      I switched to linux 3 years ago. And started and stayed with pop_os. Why? Because Anthony at the time from Linus tech tips recommend it to me. Am I gonna switch? No. I use Nvidia btw.

    • jelloeater - Ops Mgr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      NGL sometimes you can only find the software you want as a snap, it sucks, but it’s the price you pay for not using Windows or Mac. At the end of the day, it’s Windows 11, OSX or Ubuntu for most folks outside of Lemmy. I really want to swap to Mint w Debian, but they don’t have support for MATE out of the box. Maybe in a year or two. Hoping 24.04 LTS works well.

      • WFHEnglish
        7·
        7 months ago

        Debian has had MATE since forever. It’s as simple as typing

        sudo apt install mate-desktop-environment

        Honestly you don’t even need Ubuntu if you absolutely need snaps. You can install snapd on a lot of apt distros, or you can spin an Ubuntu container in Distrobox in a few seconds.

      • Steal WoolEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Im a total noob, just started using Linux, dual booting with mint and I’ve already learned to use snap

  • graphito@sopuli.xyz
    45·
    7 months ago

    Time to upload gentoo installation video on pornhub. The actor has to look like she’s enjoying the process. Any volunteers?

    • CuttingBoard@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      7 months ago

      I gave up on tumbleweed recently. I bought Suse at Best Buy back in the day, and have always had it on a second PC around the house. I love the chameleon, but a few different showstoppers led me to remove it from my laptop. I miss it, but the last snapshot booted so slowly, and I couldn’t get past it. I’m sure I’ll put it back on there, but I like being able to diagnose it and I just couldn’t this time.

  • iopq@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 months ago

    Don’t install NixOS. You won’t distrhop anymore because you can easily keep switching DEs/WMs and all the other packages

    • someguywithacomputer@lemmynsfw.com
      2·
      7 months ago

      What’s the advantage of NixOS? The thing about package isolation to overcome dependency issues sounds attractive but surely that comes with at least some kind of disadvantage.

      • iopq@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 months ago

        The disadvantage is there’s no global libraries. If you want to run a plain executable you need to steam-run it instead of just launching it and it will create an environment similar to Ubuntu

        The advantage is you just run things and they work. I heard there was some packaging issue with hyprland because of different library versions, but it never affected NixOS because there’s no global library

      • iopq@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        But it sucks in ways you can always find a solution for. You’re never like “oh so these two packages have incompatible dependencies and I can’t have both”

  • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
    61·
    7 months ago

    I don’t want you to download Manjaro, but I had one partition as root and another as home and Manjaro just asked me to install itself in root, to replace my previous borked Ubuntu installation and use old home without data loss, instead of making me set everything myself again, like Ubuntu does.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    51·
    7 months ago

    No chance of overwriting your bootloader when you distrohop using LiveUSBs and LiveCDs.

    • But srsly, Trisquel GNU/Linux is a distro that provides Ubuntu with all the non-free and contrib removed. Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is Arch with all the nonfree packages removed. Worth a look if you support software freedom and transparency.
  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
    4·
    7 months ago

    On my main workstation I’m on windows but somebody suggested Mint for a smooth transition and I made a VM just to emulate it and try it. Cinnamon 21.3.

    My takeaways:

    I honestly have no idea if it’s the Debian version of mint or which version of Debian. Kind of important to figure out what software can be used on it.

    It’s really easy to glitch the screen while changing resolutions. No idea what the hotkeys to change it back to default would be, so hard reset time when that happens.

    TBH I’ll probably just delete it and start on something more standard for my intended use cases. It’s main feature appears to be limited Windows program compatibility but… I have a Windows, so…

    • bitfucker@programming.dev
      6·
      7 months ago

      Use arch if you want more compatibility. Debian is stable but it also means their official package repository will lag behind some feature that is present on the bleeding edge. IMHO, stability is good if you are already familiar with Linux AND want it that way, but with windows compatibility in its current state (emphasis there), it is better to go bleeding edge for new users since you are transitioning anyway, you might as well try the latest feature available. Also, the biggest game changer, valve and steam, is basing their OS on Arch.