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All I wanted to do was just watch pr0n... (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 51 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

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

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

[–] porl@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

For sure!

I mean, Mint is a great distro.

Have you tried Arch, btw?

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

As long as it was mint Debian then you are already family and have made a good choice.

[–] Darkraisisi@feddit.nl 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

PopOS seems neat, I like their window manager alot.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] wfh@lemm.ee 7 points 4 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.

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

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