Is it still the king of Linux?
Only if you're still on 15 year old hardware.
>>110049112But WHY is it written in javaScript. Should we be concerned?
I tried out Pop OS with COSMIC last night and I really liked it. I think it's going to go places.
>>110049197GNOME is better
>>110049197Cosmic is my fav DE by far right nowExcited for epoch 3
>>110049277GNOME is garbage.
>>110049295Filtered winjeet retard
>>110049112Yes it is.
>>110049277GNOME's not too bad either, but I do have some gripes with it. I don't like how the top bar can only be on the primary window and you have to install extensions to pin the dock to the bottom of the screen. It's a lot more usable after customizations, but vanilla GNOME isn't as convenient.
>>110049366>>110049277*the top bar can only be on the primary monitor
>>110049112If you're a noob, yeah, I guess. Though I'm partial to LMDE due to Canonical's corpo baboonery.
>>110049112I'm still using it. I have a 2 year install and so far nothing has broken, not even once. Which is all I want out of a distro along with letting me easily install rolling or stable apps as I see fit and respects me enough to run any command and config I want to make.My only complaint is that a lot of devs quit due to retarded tranny identity politics and it has caused the rwmaining devs to throw the towel on certain features, most notably Firefox is no longer mantained and only provided as a flatpak.>>110049125Actually this may not be the case anymore, I don't know who is to blame for this (Whether it's xorg or the i915 drivers) but I have two old low power PC's that Mint can only run in compatibility graphics mode, an N3150 and a J3060. My J3355 still works fine though, I don't get it but I no longer care, I turned those computers into tmux machines.
>>110049277for headless servers, the only use case ever found for it
It's based on Debian, so just use Debian. You can use Cinnamon on Debian
>>110049438Couldn't you just use Linux Mint Debian Edition? Debian has firefox-esr maintained.
>>110049112The king of linux will always be Gentoo. The queen of linux will always be Arch.The prince of Linux will always be Fedora.The easy slut daughter will always be Mint.The nigger of linux will always be Ubuntu
>>110049112It just works>>110049438What the actual fuck are you talking about? Firefox on mint and LMDE is literally provided by the mint devs and is not a flatpak.
>>110049197Pop is pretty solid. Been using it for years with no issues. It's in my top 3 of all time favorite distros >Pop>Slackware>Void
>>110049277GNOME is comfy. I like the workflow, but the fucking political element is getting out of control
>>110049142nothing wrong with javascript
>>110049112i use linux mint with cinnamon, seems pretty nice but it's still dependent on System D which i hope gets cut out before the age verification law becomes a thing.i do really wish that cinnamon supported animated wallpapers though, because any existing wallpaper program is for KDE only.
>>110050529>i do really wish that cinnamon supported animated wallpapers though, because any existing wallpaper program is for KDE only.all you have to do is separate the panel from the window manager and the applets as X intended. as toss in an intent router while youre at it
>>110049142>But WHY is it written in javaScript.Cinnamon is Gnome raped into submission. Blame Gnome.
>>110049125h-how did you know my computer specs?
>>110049125My hardware is only 14 years, 364 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds old, you sick fuck.
>>110051397/g/ still uses 350 MHz processors.
>>110051233name: gnu network object model environmentwhat you thought you were getting: xchannel, xblob, xintent, xaudio, xhtmlwhat you actually got: corba idl serializationwhat it was replaced with: ein process, ein computer, ein redhathow it ended up: why cant i change the background in cinnamon
>>110050529the correct solution is to have cool-background draw to a window below nemos desktop and tell nemo to draw a transparent background, then let the gpu compose it
>>110049112Yes
>>110049112yes, even though there's MX Linux and CachyOS
>>110051559>32GB RAM >X11LOL LMAO LMFAO
>>110051582gayest, most pretentious try-hard response on the internet
>>110051589>based, more true and real response on the internet FIFY
>>110051559Why are you using an end of life kernel?
>>110050324Can't bootstrap itselfCan't have typesCan't not take up less than an adequate amount of memory to executeIs not supposed to compile to binary (rofl)Not even called ecmascript because developers were afraid that it would die of not being popular enough.Doesn't belong anywhere other than the front-end webStraight up cringe.
>>110049112No. It might have a resurgence in December when Cinnamon gets Wayland support, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
install ubuntu
>>110049112all real niggas are on nixos
>>110051965TroonOS
>>110049142javascript is a great language, the problem is that you know its javascript, that needs to be an implementation detail hidden behind a process boundary. process boundaries and X packets are good
>>1100518571996: your panel applet has an X window and tells the X server what goes inside it. the panel tells X where that applet belongs2026: your panel applet must be written in javascript and loaded into the panel process because KEIN NETVORKEN IN MEIN PERFECT COMPUTER
I use Mint to test PCs when they don't work. For some reason Mint is better at detecting hardware automatically than other distros (even Ubuntu, despite being Mint's base) when I run them in live mode, and that helps me to identify when a component is damaged or if it was just windows shitting itself (issues with sound, wireless connections, printers and corrupt USB thumbs are the most common problems I find).
When Mint has a completely modern 2026 update, I'm there.
>>110052824What do you want updated?
>>110049112You can run cinnamon on ubuntu or debian, there really is no point to it.
>>110054186Appstore and drivers OOTB
>>110055160No point to it.
>>110049112yes, it just werks...
>>110055230Usecase for point?
>>110050096>ships cosmic beta on the LTS releaselol
>>110049112It is, even if it's old and ugly now. You can use many other distros and get a similar experience or better for some use cases, but Mint will always "just work" when everything else fails. Clem was right from the beginning and continues to be right even in the big '26.
Wouldn't Bazzite be the best just works distro? Haven't used it personally, just asking because on paper it should be.
>>110049112https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5086New Linux Mint blog entry. There's nothing juicy tho. Just a new alarms app, a new naming scheme and a hint to 3 more new apps.
>>110049112Nah cuh, the king is either Fedora or Debian. Everything else is a derivative or a derivative of a derivative ignoring of course corporate distros
>>110049112>try to install apache superset>wifi gets fucked over with constant packet loss, images stop downloading, chrome loads pages with ERR_NETWORK_CHANGE errorsGreat OS, very cool.
>>110049197+1 I've been running it for a minute and I'm liking what I see
>>110049125More like 11 but yep.
>>110056596They seem to be replacing some gnome apps. I kinda like superlight that is basically a replacement for the gnome system monitor. It uses 28 mb. And it can also clean cache and verify usage space of installed flatpaks and other data space from it. Kinda cool.
>>110051779Because it runs all my games perfectly...? Not needing to update every fucking day was one of the reasons I left Windows.
the french distros are better but theres hint of multiculti in them
>Next mint is going to be called AdrienHey wait a sec...
>>110051529128 mb ram is nothing today even in 2007 it was very low end.
>>110051407Let me guess, you NEED more?
>>110049277GNOME was made obsolete the moment MATE was forked from it
>>110059391You joking right? Mate is the obsolete outdated piece of shit these days.
>>110059411GNOME 2 can never be obsolete when its basically what a DE looks like as a solved problem
>>110059428Have fun rocking that shit on modern screen resolutions and fps
>>1100594461440p 120hz with no issues anon
>>110050076Based
>>110059459Post screenshot, I wanna lol at that scaling
>>110049438>My only complaint is that a lot of devs quit due to retarded tranny identity politics and it has caused the rwmaining devs to throw the towel on certain features, most notably Firefox is no longer mantained and only provided as a flatpak.I never understand you people. You seem to be trans, but in denial or something and it is resulting in delusions. Mint doesn't use flatpak to distribute Firefox. But you feel the need to scream about trans people so you psychobabble.>>110056504Bazzite is a gamer distro. It only "just werks" for gaming. There is a giant difference between making a functional, useful desktop computer interface with complete experience vs imitating SteamOS.
>>110058895He even shares Mint's green and black colors.
>>110059663It plays well with Nvidia which is good for casuals looking to try out Linux
>>110049438>My only complaint is that a lot of devs quit due to retarded tranny identity politics and it has caused the rwmaining devs to throw the towel on certain features, most notably Firefox is no longer mantained and only provided as a flatpak.Are you sure you didn't mistake Mint for Manjaro, elementary or even Debian? Mint and Clement are the "I just wanna grill" meme of Linux and every time there's a controversy about the distro it's on the software side of things without mention of identity politics.
>>110059663Bazzite works well outside of gaming too
>>110060718It's not designed to be a desktop OS, though. You use a distro like that for its purpose.
>>110060908You can definitely use it as a desktop, why couldn't you?
The next version (based on ubuntu 26.04 released in april) is due for christmas. that means almost all the packages in the repo will be 8 months out of day for this "new" mint releaseit is a joke distro used exclusively by clowns
>>110060923You constantly updoot your packages? I know this is bait
>>110060913Because it isn't designed for anything. Things like default programs are chosen based on whatever the maintainer feels like. It works, but you don't get anything the maintainer actually themselves maintains.Take Fedora for instance. IBM contributes both time and money to Gnome and KDE, so the interface is what they want based on the fact that they actually get to directly influence those projects. Mint makes their own interface, and maintains their own programs like Timeshift. Ubuntu modifies Gnome for its purposes and also has significant influence on Gnome apps (updates to those apps revolve around Ubuntu LTS releases). The actual desktop experience is dictated by the maintainer.Bazzite is just whatever projects like KDE are putting out at the moment. If the maintainers are doing something, it's usually something related to library compatiblity so games and streaming works properly.
>>110060923Ubuntu packages aren't out of date for five years after release.>but that's just securitySo it's not out of date.
>>110049125>Only if you're still on 15 year old hardware.ok, see you in 15 years
>>1100609691. What's the point of using Mint if you will replace its main attractive (a desktop configured with "sane" defaults for new users)?2. Share your wallpaper.
>>110061024the desktop is not the appeal of mint. the backend just werks with all of the drivers and codecs and repositories and whatever else already configured. you can keep its preinstalled GUI programs without the cinnamon desktop>wallpapersorry, i had it in /tmp and lost it when the power company shut me down
>>110054179Everything.All packages are years out of date.
>>110061099Yeah Ubuntu stable is already ancient, but mint devs take even longer to roll out major updates.If you want cutting edge technology then you're pretty much stuck with maintaining a fedora install. Unless you wanna go full retard and go borderline bleeding edge with arch
>>110056504>immutamemeits ass
>>110061122I often hear from fedora tippers that they get packages faster than arch though
>>110061159Idunno, I hear the opposite. Arch based has never werked for me so I don't follow
>>110060942>IBM contributes both time and money to Gnome and KDENope. IBM only contributes to GNOME.>>110061122Debian Unstable is also quite comfy.
