i thought it was the pleb option but turns out it's the best one by far short of building your own OS
>>106441989damn right negro
agreed OP
>>106441989welcome home, white man
>>106441989OP here, sorry I meant to post the Ubuntu logo
>>106441989Still have geoclue spyware built in
>>106442592>everybody should switch to linux>NNNOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT!you can't have both, nigger
>>106442592And what is bad about that?
>>106442592sorry but I'm not dealing with having to find and download drivers manuallysupport my hardware or fuckoff
>>106442466Ubuntu is the second best option
I've installed Mint, Kubuntu, and Debian in the past few weeks and Mint was by far the one with the least fuckery involved. Debian was okay, just took me a long while to install everything I need. Fuck Kubuntu though; wouldn't even start Virtualbox Windows VM for me amongst other dumb shit.I am grateful for Mint; it is smooth and lovely. Debian KDE is nice too though.
using it as we speak
>>106441989Mint has always been the distro I return to. When I spent a year distro hopping like an autist breaking my OS every other week like clockwork I could always count on Mint to just work out of the box. No driver install issues, no hardware incompatibility issues, no excessive terminal usage for basic functions, it really is the just werks of just werks distros.And now that I've settled down, stopped hopping, and use Mint full time I have to say it's only gotten better over the years. It'll be the distro Win10 users hop onto after their EOL hits in October and it'll welcome them with open arms and easy living. It'll guide you through your first Linux experience, will wish you goodbye if you decide to leave but will always welcome you back warmly like you never left. We love you, Linux Mint!
using at as we speak
>>106443499lmao! perfect!cheers mintybro
Any fix for the audio cutting out from time to time? Kinda annoying when I'm listening to dialog or music in games.
>>106443618Is that a common thing across Mint in general? never had it happen
>>106443618What normally works for me is to just go into my audio settings and switch off my headphones then back onto them. Mine are bluetooth so disconnecting and reconnecting also works.But I've never had the audio cut out while using my computer, it's only if I let it idle and come back to it that the audio will stop working.
>>106441989While i use my autistic arch build, i just recommend mint to anyone that ask, because it's like what ubuntu wanted to be before they turned into autistic retarded tablet shit.
I don't even care if it's called pleb, if it's what gets people to say fuck you to win11 then so be it
>>106441989You always hear people say Mint is a good "beginner" distro. But that's ridiculous. There's nothing beginner about it. It's a complete Linux system, just as powerful as any of the others. It just makes setup way less of a hassle and has a great overall selection of basic things that come preinstalled.
>>106443845Mint is terrifying because it's a "just werks linux".
>>106441989It werks fineFor me setting up the trackpoint on my X13G4 to actually be usable is how i learned to properly setup .cfg files and fine tuning mouse settings on any sort of debian based system.
>>106441989KDE Plasma 6 on Debian 13 actually supports fractional scaling.Until Mint gets that shit ironed out, it's painful to use on any setup with resolutions higher than 1920x1080.
>>106444113I should say: until Cinnamon DE gets that shit ironed out* I'm sure Mint with Plasma also JustWorks™
>>106441989whats the wallpaper from?
>>106441989That's nice but I'll stick to windows 10.
>>106444568LTSC and all right?
>>106444568I understand this attitude. I was the same way with Windows 7. But you have to realize: the clampdown on OS' is coming quick. Microsoft is absolutely going to figure out a way to rugpull you. Some kind of "secure gaming" certification, or a Google Play Integrity-esque requirement, or they may even just say "fuck it. if you're not a registered corporate account, you're getting forcible upgraded". It is in your best interest to get ahead of this and switch to Linux before you are scrambling at the last second. All shilling and bullshit aside, Linux is legitimately easy to use and stable these days - don't be fooled.
>>106441989The only thing I wish Mint/Cinammon had was a tiling feature similar to Ubuntu's (Tiling Assistant Extension). I've come to really depend on it, otherwise Mint really would be a no-brainer for me.I wonder how hard it is to write extensions for Cinnamon, maybe that's a project for sometime in the future.
Why do loonixtards hate the idea of a distro that just werks so much?
I lifted an old laptop destined to the trash at work and installed mint on it. I'm impressed, it works well, has a lot of QOL and is faster than my desktop at a lot of things despite being having 5% the compute. I need to list everything I use because switching on my main computer looks interesting.
>>106441989>best one by far>not ZorinOSliar
>>106441989Looks ugly
>>106447582Isn't Zorin still on 22.04? It takes real effort to be more outdated than Debian.
>>106441989What did you just think it just a meme?
>>106447582>paying for Linux
>>106443668Lots of people complain about it but I've never experienced a problem with it. Probably something hardware-specific.
>>106443845It turns out that a lot of the time, making things for beginners doesn't actually fuck things over for competent users. Of course sometimes it does, but not always. And better to dump the problems on the people who know how to fix them and will just grumble a bit.
>>106441989I remember when Ubuntu and Gnome completely shit the bed years ago with Gnome 3 and whatever the fuck Canonical's replacement was and Mint came out of nowhere to pick up the slack. Their reputation as the "pleb option" should be a badge of honour.
>>106442584Then how do I remove it?
>>106441989give me one meaningful difference between it and ubuntu. why would i not just get ubuntu
>>106449480No one likes GNOME
>>106441989the best
>>106441989It's based on Debian so just use Debian.
>>106441989my first distro for the last month or so, don't even notice I'm on linux for the most part. Question I have is can you still do ricing on Mint? Or do you need Arch for that? I want to get into this.
sorry, i want to use the most update software that doesnt take a billion years to get updates for. I'll use tumbleweed. Mint blows ass!
>>106445588You've been saying this since windows vista and yet windows is still the only usable os.
>>106441989It would be perfect if it offered a KDE spin.
>>106447430makes it harder to provide tech support and develop the things that matter.It works because it's a bunch of layers around the same thing, except now when there's a problem we need to know the exact system configuration.
>>106443215You seem to be saying that LMDE is the way to go.
>>106443845Frankly Fedora has a easier setup.
>>106443618Never actually had this issue. Screen tearing was a pain and the only real issue besides the bloat. But I fixed it by offloading the composition to my GPU on boot.>bash -c 'sleep 5 && nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On }"' if anyone's interested, just add to the cinnamon start up applications or I3 config or whatever. They'll be a better way though I'm sure.
>systemd>aptIt will never live up to alpine linux.
>>106450273Are you on Cinnamon, or XFCE/MATE? Cinnamon is slightly more limited, but it's mostly installing GTK themes from somewhere like https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=135, copying them to a .themes folder in your home directory. Pretty sure you can even install themes directly from Mint's appearance settings.For picrel it's most likely https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95, you'd just need to install XFCE then follow the instructions.
>>106453727>Pretty sure you can even install themes directly from Mint's appearance settings.It said>Loading image 27/101so I suppose there are 101 themes, which seems kind of like a low number, these must just be the themes for Mint (or LMDE in my case) specifically, I guess.
>>106453727ok thx I'm on Cinnamon right now
>>106453972I believe those are themes uploaded specifically to cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com, so they're integrated to be installed seamlessly through settings. You'll find a lot more options manually installing GTK themes via that link I sent for gnome-look, could also try https://www.cinnamon-look.org/browse?cat=133 if you want some themes built specifically for Cinnamon.
>>106454007>I believe those are themes uploaded specifically to cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.comAh, I see, thanks.By Mint, for Mint, should work OOTB, I guess.I'm the>he doesn't have any stickers on his laptop>he uses light theme>(okay, now that dark is a optional default, this is a bit outdated)>he just sat there like a psycho, coding awaykind of guy, so I'm currently just as the stage of trying the different *colors* of Mint's dark themes, but you guys go ahead :3
Installed battlenet and installed wow through it, using Steam. But it absolutely runs like fucking shit. My computer doesn't heat up tho and managed to raid ahn qiraj with the guild yesterday. Any tips?
>>106454052*Some of those >>106453972 look really tempting, to be honest...You guys might want to sort by date, some of those are>Last Updated: 6 years agoand state>Compatible with Cinnamon 4and I kind of have my doubts it'll be OOTB compatible...Themes definitely work better on Linux than on Windows (though my experiences are limited to 95 to 7), but I'd personally still fool around with them in a VM to find the one I'd actually install on my main workstation.
>>106441989I used mint for a little while and it was alright but I had two main problems:1. the packages in the package store were out of date, sometimes by a year2. I named one of my drives "NIGGER" at install because I couldn't think of a good name at the time and then I couldn't rename it no matter what I did after that. there was supposed to be a way to rename it but it would just fail every time I tried. in hindsight I probably could have done it through the command line but to me one of the points of linux mint is the fact that it has GUIs for stuff so that you don't need to use the command line.this was 3-5 years ago so maybe these things have improved somewhat
>>106441989It's good, specially if you are installing for other people.Still think they should abandoned ubuntu and main their debian version.Also update their icon pack,
>systemd>aptit's fine as a temporary shelter, but the moment you get the hang of a unix system you really should change to a less shit distribution.
>>106454698Neither of these things matter to the average joe computer user doe
>>106441989Of course it is. I don't run Mint because I like Ubuntu better. But you're still in the right section of the distro tree. Only retards with nothing better to do will tell you to rice out Arch or some shit. The best use of your time is using an OS that will get out of your way and let you work on real projects. I mean that would put MacOS at the top of the OS ranks, but I hate Apple shit, so Mint or Ubuntu are the next best options.
>>106441989Using endeavorOS but mint was my first and still my bae. I consider going back to it and I may one day.
>>106450065there is always something not working or off when you initially set up debian. those are usually small things, but still. mint just works right away.
I use a mint VM on the entertainment center TV. It's easy enough my PC illiterate gf can use it no problem
>>106441989
>>106450273Dare I ask what the wallpaper is
>>106441989i liked it too but then alot of my windowed video applications started having this weird cropping issue. still jank like all linux distros.
>>106444214Brienzer Rothorn, Switzerland.https://www.flickr.com/photos/129744600@N05/16266050235/https://best-wallpaper.net/Switzerland-Alps-Rothorn-Lake-Brienz-railroad-greens-grass-clouds_wallpapers.html
>>106456868aieeee windows I kneel
>>106455012they do because they're buggy pieces of shit
>>106456868USECASE?
>>106457970works on my machine
>>106457999Trips of TRVTH
>>106456868>>106457999works on kde
>>106458213not that anon but KDE is cool and all, but damn is it buggy. gnome is pretty solid but so fkn boring and annoying to use. i hope cosmic is good.
>>106441989Yea, it's pretty great.
>>106441989It's so good I'm using it even on my home server. Debian always ends up fucked for a few months after the release of next-stable, and Ubuntu is full of snapshit, so Mint it is.
>>106458232>damn is it buggyunironically works on my machine, the only krashes i've had are from trying to use the applet from the new merkuro contacts app, which is unfinished and empty anyway>cosmicyou can already try it on some distros. i tried it and while the custom themes are cool, i dont like the design. it's still touch-oriented with large touch-friendly controls like gnome. i prefer traditional desktop like kde, xfce, lxqt.oh also not to mention the memory leaks are very real with cosmic, be prepared to OOM at least a couple times if you try it.
>>106441989Installed Linux Mint yday.It just worked right away.Didn't ask for loicenses.No drivers needed.Games run as should.Firefox preinstalled, had to get two addons in 30 seconds and import my passwords from a file.
I use Fedora because apt, Debian, and Mark Shuttleworth can go fuck themselves
>>106459286>Firefox preinstalledAnd Thunderbird. When I switched from Windows 7, seeing these two right on the desktop was when I knew I made the right decision. They were what I already used. Switched to nvidia driver from nouveau, tweaked the theme, fiddled with pulseeffects and blam, that was it.
>>106458232KDE has never been a problem from me. The only times I ever have issues with buggy stuff is if I do something abnormal to my system.
>>106441989Show me automatic btrfs snapshots preconfigured. Show me zram preconfigured.
>>106457970When has systemd ever bugged out?
