Linux Mint: am I a joke to you
Bashing Ubuntu is getting really fucking old.
I personally prefer Zshing Ubuntu
I’m more of a fishing kinda guy but whatever floats your boat.
as a windows user who is planning to switch to linux mint im gonna have to bash Ubuntu by calling it red arch since i assume people are making fun of the best distro linux mint
Aside from the snaps being annoying, it’s really not bad and works with any hardware you throw at it.
TBH, some software unfortunately is ONLY available via snaps… I’m looking at you Telegram and TradingView…
It is. I think it’s just a Lemmy thing. All the folks I know use Ubuntu or Mac TBH. Debain is also nice too.
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What makes it more user friendly than anything else?
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That doesn’t sound any different than any other distro I’ve tried
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Mint gets rid of snaps, distros that don’t are just bad imo.
It even has a Debian based release
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Because snaps are terrible. They constantly break parts of apps for no reason. If you have container issues with a flatpak, just use flatseal to punch a hole through the container. With snaps, people will tell you to install the non-snap version because that’s easier than beating snap into submission. I learned that the hard way when I had a university project with kubernetes and docker was installed as a snap. I spent way too much time trying to make it work at all before giving up and switching to a VM on my work laptop where it went surprisingly smooth without snaps.
Flatpaks are better in every way and since this isn’t about money, we should all just move on and use the best tool for the job.
But what does canonical think should happen when you run
sudo apt install firefox
and pressY
? That’s right, you now have firefox as a snap. Have fun waiting for 5 seconds every time you start it.Shit like that scares new users away from linux as a whole.
Flatpaks are better in every way
How well do they handle system components or terminal applications?
LMDE: The cooler Daniel
Every youtube review
…and be userfriendly and must be lightweight on my brand new 32core ryzen.
cry harder red arch user linux Mint is wayyyy better for a previous windows user
I’ll have a…
Meme that says ‘Ubuntu bad’
How original
And lots of upvotes
Daring today aren’t we
Meh. I’ve been rocking Debian based distros ever since Aptitude was released on Debian stable. Which distro just depends on how much free time I have to F around the computer. Lots of time? Something that updates fast. My child was born? I want something rock solid and immutable for years because I don’t want to waste time learning new stuff.
When I used Mint about 6 years ago, I sometimes got into trouble with Mint’s weird update system. They were also telling users to reinstall instead of updating when there’s a new LTS, which is kinda ridiculous IMO.
I’m probably not the typical Mint user, though.
They recently made a tool that handle the update to a new LTS. I upgraded from mint 20 to 21 and it went very well aside from the the printer stopping. Tried everything and it still doesn’t work. It’s not even a modern DRM galore bullshit printer, It’s an ancient canon lbp6000 laser printer so I honestly don’t know why it stopped.
If anyone got any idea how to fix it, I’d highly appreciate it.
I’m so sorry… it seems like your printer has daemons in it…
Make sure CUPS is running, go to http://localhost:631 to see the administration interface for CUPS. You’ll probably wanna checkout the ArchWiki page about CUPS too, it’s relevant to many distributions. If it’s a USB printer and not IPP you’ll need to make sure the right drivers are being used. IPP printers work outta the box.
Thanks a ton for your help. Yes, it’s a USB printer and I got it originally working in mint 20 by installing the driver using a github script because the official driver didn’t work for some reason. Hopefully, it will work again. Thanks again.
Run the script again?
Oh my fucking god i actually fucking hate this shitty ass meme templete holy fuckkkkk