Mint was my “gateway distro” to get away from windows as a daily driver. It still is my daily driver and it’s given me enough guardrails to not screw it up too badly and learn.
I’m looking to go further up stream towards Debian. I’ve looked at arch and “arch that’s not allowed to be called arch because it has a gui installer”, but I’m not ready/able/“risk-tolerant-enough” to keep that stable as my daily driver. Fedora dormant seem quite right for me.
I really like mint, it meets my needs, has treated me well.
I looked at Manjaro VERY briefly, and I played with Endeavor a bit. I installed several distros as VMs just to poke around. I found Debian familiar which is likely the main reason I find myself leaning that way.
I’m with you here, sometimes I’m really lazy and don’t want to mess with it. Other times I’m hell-bent on doing something I know how to do in a GUI through terminal.
Mint has let me keep my system OS rock solid, and I’m not afraid to try about anything in the vm. Reinstall when time permits or just roll back to a snapshot.
I’ve got time shift installed, but I use my computer for work, so there’s some draw to stability and having everything just work.
I’m sure it’d be fine, I’m probably not willing to put in the right amount of effort. I think a big fear for me is I use the computer for work, and while I have others, I prefer this one. I may not have the 15-30min to research and resolve something I did to myself.
I also try not to be the person who asks for help on the same question for the 17th time.
So far I’ve always been able to find answers in documentation or communities. Turns out I’m not so unique. ;).
Thanks for this recommendation as it’s potentially a logical step. I’ve thought about this but not researched it enough, yet. I don’t understand enough about the differences yet. Hypothetically, do I need or want Mint on Debian, or do I just want to get the real deal? Not posing the question to you, just what I’ve yet to research further. Mint is currently working fine for me, so there’s no rush.
This feels like google when google was new. I’ve been using the summarizer more and reading the articles I send it to understand how it works. It definitely has its use cases
There could be a bit of a caveat here. I when I purchased my laptop it had windows 10 installed. When I installed Mint, I could not reuse that key in a VM because it was “different hardware”. The license, could not be transferred under any circumstance. I had also purchased the upgrade to Pro through the windows store. That’s also lost.
I seldom run windows, even in the VM, but it still leaves one a bit bitter.
I called support, they said no. Asked for a one time exception, still no. The key to my knowledge was only used once on the laptop when I bought it new.
U.S. automaker Ford has issued a recall involving potentially 41,555 trucks, including certain 2023 Super Duty F250 and F350 vehicles “equipped with single rear wheels and a 10.5-inch rear axle shaft,” the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration said....
Is it really that the truck shouldn’t exist, or that people shouldn’t drive them as an everyday vehicle? I mean they have a purpose, and it’s not getting beer and chips from the grocery store.
I’m good with the disapproval of the people that suck, but I feel like it’s getting directed incorrectly.
Good morning everyone. I’ve got the age old question of what distro should I use. I got started with Ubuntu and eventually moved to Linux Mint Cinnamon. I’m pretty happy with using it as a daily driver, and it’s worked reasonably well with my NVIDIA graphics card. I enjoy a bit of the “it just works” I’ve experienced...
Very good point! I made an edit to attempt to better answer, but in reality, I don’t think I know exactly what I want. I’ve seen a lot of distros labeled as beginner-level, but I think that primarily means that there’s more capability around UI available to support configuration and package management. Am I limiting myself and what I can learn by staying where I am? Maybe I’m just in decision paralysis because I already could do ANYTHING what with I’ve got, I just need to figure out what I want to do.
Thanks, I’ll give this a try with Mint, and I’ll bet if I experiment in a VM first, I’ll enjoy life a lot more when tying to do so to my core install. I don’t know why I never really thought about putting a different DE on Mint, but it seems obvious once mentioned. It might be the easiest way to get a fresh feel in a baby-steps approach.
I think this might be it. I need to figure out where I want to learn more (there’s lots of community support out there) and then just start having at it. I’m not limited by my current choice over a different distro in reality, though it may be easier to use something with less built-in once I know where I’m going. Or, I could get good at removing the extra I don’t use, but depending on how much I try to customize away from their standard, that could get “entertaining”.
Thank you for calling this out in advance. I likely would have encountered this as I try to take the approach of research, then do.
This is the first time I’ve ever posted for Linux help/or guidance. Searching forums has historically lead me to an answer close enough to resolve my not-so unique issue.
Thank you for this. I’ll definately check out Fedora’s KDE spin. I have used Kubuntu in the past, but it was back a bit and I got attached to Linux Mint.
A lot of negatives seem to come up around Oracle and Canonical being involved with SUSE and Ubuntu, but probably isn’t a huge deal in the greater picture.
Is there a setting anywhere for moderators to take a community private (to make the posts, comments and other data visible only for people who are subscribed)?...
Thanks! I’ll dig into this, I currently use iPhone, but that’ll eventually get replaced with something that supports LineageOS or GraphineOS. I expect I can do DNS over HTTPS on Linux, but I was hoping to get this changed at the router level. xfinity requires you use their modem/router for the unlimited data. They’ve removed a ton of settings you could change in the past, and now they force you to use the app for almost everything. (I install/uninstall every time i need to use it)
"atypical house in terms of layout and decoration, modern and original" (lemmy.ml)
Original for sure. That’s one way of hanging a mirror.
10 REASONS why Linux Mint is the desktop OS to beat in 2023 (www.youtube.com)
Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere (www.theverge.com)
Very clever... (lemmy.ml)
I’m trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.
You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2. (www.neowin.net)
Automaker Ford recalls almost 42,000 F250, F350 trucks for safety (scrippsnews.com)
U.S. automaker Ford has issued a recall involving potentially 41,555 trucks, including certain 2023 Super Duty F250 and F350 vehicles “equipped with single rear wheels and a 10.5-inch rear axle shaft,” the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration said....
Trying to find the right Linux distro: What do you think I need to research more?
Good morning everyone. I’ve got the age old question of what distro should I use. I got started with Ubuntu and eventually moved to Linux Mint Cinnamon. I’m pretty happy with using it as a daily driver, and it’s worked reasonably well with my NVIDIA graphics card. I enjoy a bit of the “it just works” I’ve experienced...
Is there any form of printer that isn't a complete con-job or scam?
I see these constant horror stories of having to pay to print, silly ink prices, having to log onto a web server etc....
So does anyone even know how much Reddit is even charging for API?
Like, yeah there was a huge protest and a big deal of it made about it. But, I never once saw numbers....
TIL yawning is observed in almost all vertebrate animals and is "contagious" across species. There is no consensus on why yawning occurs. (en.wikipedia.org)
This elevator reuses floor numbers (imgur.com)
Also in an order that confused me.
Is there such thing as a private community on Lemmy?
Is there a setting anywhere for moderators to take a community private (to make the posts, comments and other data visible only for people who are subscribed)?...
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