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I won’t bash Mint, because I think Mint Cinnamon is great (if a little ugly out of the box).
For the past 3-4 years, though, I’ve been using Fedora and I’ve been very impressed. Almost as cutting edge as Arch, yet it’s well-tested and in my experience rock-solid stable.
Y’all never get tired of preaching to the choir, do ya?
Anyone with technical chops has likely tried Linux, or is running it now. 99.954% of the Windows users will either upgrade or roll without updates. Converts are going to be exceedingly rare.
Only way I’ve got people using Linux was when I fixed “little old lady” computers as a charity thing. I’d throw whatever spare parts I had in there, swap in an SSD, load Linux Lite. I never told them it was Linux. Show them how to get FaceBook and email, done. And I never got a call back!
New people are born every day. They don’t jump out of the womb with a Linux USB in their hand.
Zorin is much better in every way
Please stop recommending mint. These days now modern alternatives are just better, especially when they might want to game even just a bit. But it’s not just shut taking, mint is kind of stuck in the past for a lot of things.
they might want to game even just a bit
you can game on mint just fine, i did for the year i used mint
Perhaps it would be useful to list some alternatives?
Stop recommending Mint, especially to beginners. Ubuntu, Fedora, and Bazzite are all better for first time users because they actually work, they have much larger support networks, and are overall much higher quality with a focus on basic reliability.
Nah, Mint was my first distro and it works great
Perfect for beginners
Mint is based on ubuntu, and doesnt have the corporate slop. Bazzitte relies on flatpaks which is janky at best. Try explaining why you cant drag and drop in applications because they’ve been sandboxed…
As for fedora… what does it offer better? Or is it just personal taste?
Mint is based on ubuntu, and doesnt have the corporate slop.
What’s corporate slop? Mint is just a mediocre rebrand with a different default DE, and way less maintainers/testers (which is why there are so many people asking why X doesn’t work, where “X” is a basic thing any other distro does effortlessly)
Bazzitte relies on flatpaks which is janky at best. Try explaining why you cant drag and drop in applications because they’ve been sandboxed…
Flatpaks support drag and drop just fine. I think you’re confused?
As for fedora… what does it offer better?
Than Mint? The same thing Ubuntu does: reliability. The average windows user isn’t going to sign up to a web forum to post a question asking how to fix something that doesn’t work, they’ll just go back to Windows.
The best way to avoid that is to not recommend a fragile OS like Mint. Fedora, Ubuntu, and Bazzite are all far better choices.
What’s corporate slop
Do i really need to iterate the shenanigans of canonical?
Flatpaks support drag and drop just fine. I think you’re confused?
I once installed discord as a flatpak and couldn’t drag and drop files. Installed the .deb and it worked perfectly fine. I also had a lot of file permissions issues with flatpaks. I now avoid them like the plague.
The same thing Ubuntu does: reliability
And how is mint less reliable? Because it has less maintainers? So if you have a billion maintainers, then it should be more reliable? Right? Totally wont be a spaghetti mess. Unless you can actually provide metrics… we can assume windows is more reliable for having thousands of highly paid developers… by your own logic.
Or, one of a few other Linux distributions for starters, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, or Pop!_OS
Linux Mint can be nice if you want a very “light“ windows experience, but you can also pick one of the thousands of other Linux distributions. One of those may suit you better.
Always remember: Linux is about choice
Always remember: Linux is about choice
That is one of the advantages of Linux. Let’s not let it be a liability.
When coming to Linux, it is about “taking that first step”. If you are coming from something else, any distro is a positive move and they are much more alike than they are different (compared to the OS you are coming from). So, start with something safe. I do not use Mint but it is an awesome choice.
Once you learn more about Linux and about what you like, you will learn that you have 1000 choices. Once you know the difference and know which once suits you, you can switch. At that point, you will find switching easy.
The idea that people “have to choose” at the beginning holds many people back.
Any of Mint, PopOS, Fedora, or Ubuntu would serve a new user just fine. I recommend Mint because the UX is familiar to Windows users, it is “batteries included”, and it is conservative (stable). But the others are great too.
Too many can cause decision paralysis. Letting people get their feet wet with a light windows experience isn’t a bad thing. And it can lead to finding something more suited to their needs down the road. No need to deluge people in choice right off the bat.
Most people can come to a moderate and chilled decision without being swayed by the extremes.
Let me tell you something about the current worldwide political problems we’ve been having…
