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    hell yeah mint (lemmy.world)
    submitted 8 months ago by RedditEnjoyer@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Debian FTW

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    [–] traches@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Been using arch + sway + neovim for 5 years now. Everyone says it’s the “I spend more time fucking with configs than getting work done” setup but then why does my dotfiles repo look like this?

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    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

    I run Tumbleweed btw.

    [–] Presi300@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    I love mint, but man do I want them to hurry up with their wayland support

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    [–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Use Arch if you want maintaining your system to be a hobby in its own right. Use Mint if you just want something that works.

    [–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 6 points 8 months ago

    Unless you want two monitors with different scaling.

    [–] midnight@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

    Arch is great if you want to customize your system, but I wouldn't say it really needs "maintaining" beyond just updating more frequently. (which you don't even really need to do very often, you just have the option to get newer versions of software.)

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    [–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

    You are missing the "Cinnamon on Arch" guy a little further up the scale, but you gotta crop somewhere I guess 🤷

    [–] akhial@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Tbf after searching for a just works distro and going down a distrohopping bunny hole I ended up on arch lol.

    pacman -S gnome and everything is gucci + AUR is something else.

    [–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Yea I'll stick with Arch for the AUR, so many times I've come across something I wanted to try and I see .tar.gz and I'm like ehhhh

    9/10 it's on the AUR

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    [–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

    Meanwhile I'm over here dual booting Mint and Artix. I like fun, bleeding edge hobby distros and reliable boring ones that do everything I really need completely reliably.

    [–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

    I'm old enough to remember this being Ubuntu.

    [–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Dayum, 9 years ago i started with mint and distro hopped a bit then daily drived arch for many years, and now I'm back to lmde6, so you ain't gotta call me out like that

    [–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago

    MINT, MINT , MINT

    [–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    idk man, i just like me a good non derivative distro. Debian, arch, nix, gentoo, whatever as long as it has less hands it's being passed through im happy.

    [–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Having a custom distro that installs some extra frequently used software by default is no problem for me.

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    [–] sirico@feddit.uk 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Definition of standing on the shoulders of giants. Even from the start when it offered the codecs Ubuntu didn't mint has been there. Same for arch want something specified but don't want to start at a lfs or Gentoo it has your back all you have to do is read up on the bits you want. I think it's amazing that for me the best distros are still community ones.

    [–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    LFS is the linux pilgrimage that turns noobs into greybeards. Whrn it work uou erase it and install debian.

    [–] mlg@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    My only issue with mint is that it is downstream of Ubuntu so I feel like the maintainers have to spend too much effort fixing kinks and bypassing Canonical's dumb ideas.

    LMDE is cool too, but then its too stable and doesn't have all the nice UI features of regular mint lol.

    [–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    I find it amusing and interesting that a heap of people work hard to create Debian, then a bunch of other people build on it to create Ubuntu, then a third group of people do a heap of additional work to wind back some of the changes to create Mint.

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    [–] jak2k@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I prefer Fedora. It works great and has no bullshit.

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    [–] randon31415@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I thought they closed down Mint to get people to sign up for Credit Karma?

    [–] Quills@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Wait what?

    [–] LonelyNematocyst@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

    After googling, I think that was a joke about an unrelated app.

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    [–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    debian for my server, fedora for my desktop, endeavouros for my laptop

    just use what you like if it make sense for the given context

    [–] namelivia@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

    It is a sinus wave from me, went between Ubuntu and Arch several times depending on how playful y feel :D

    [–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Hard to tell if the 𝑦-axis is population or loudness

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