Makes some good points, mint is the closest experience you can get to windows. And one thing I think people who are getting uppity about the idea of that don’t get is, if you want more mainstream adaptation of Linux, YOU. NEED. THAT.
I remember the story of a man trying to get his mom onto Linux and she broke down crying at one point because learning all the new things was stressful for her, completely turned her off of Linux.
Mint isn’t for the sweaty arch-bros of the world, it’s a valuable onboarding tool for the rest of us who didn’t spend our childhood scripting shell commands to do random shit on our PC’s in grade school. IMHO, Adapt to accessibility or get the hell out of the way.
I dunno, I use Garuda and it’s an Arch distro. It’s been super user friendly and I’ve only had to learn console stuff when I wanted to mess with stuff most casual users wouldn’t be bothered with.
And maybe you would say, “well that’s not really representative of a normal Arch install” but isn’t that the point of different distros? That anyone can build on functionality to do something like make Arch more user friendly?
Mint is a good choice because it has an easy timeshift option, so a problem in an update is just a rollback/recover. Same as Snapper Rollback on distros like OpenSUSE, it means a non savvy Linux user can reboot and have it fixed. That is appealing for a lot of users that don’t want to bother with finding the fix
It could happen with anything, but since Mint 17.3 (2015) the only serious corruption I’ve experienced is during a major OS upgrade. I had far more problems with Windows.
nothing wrong with Mint, but it isnt some magical distro, and I’m so sick of hearing about it that my ears pretty much hear Linux Moist
every single “What distro should I try?” thread: “Mint”“I recommend Mint” "Why use x when you could use Mint?"“MINT!”… /rant
many distros fall into that category, elementary, zorin, kubuntu, etc. mint isnt even at the top of every such list
just seems weird. I mean, the OP is pretty much a blatant commercial. “It just works-out-of-the-box!” yeah, they kind of all do
but mostly I just wanna hate on the thing everyone likes, probably. I was a punkrock kid :-)
Are you one of those ‘Systemd is bad’ type people too? I could see you making the argument that any distro that allows you to install systemd is bad, defaults be damned.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic. Apologies if you were.
He has switched to Linux Mint instead
I mean, good for him I guess? Comparing Mint to Arch is about as pointless as comparing Mint to headless Debian.
Why
Makes some good points, mint is the closest experience you can get to windows. And one thing I think people who are getting uppity about the idea of that don’t get is, if you want more mainstream adaptation of Linux, YOU. NEED. THAT.
I remember the story of a man trying to get his mom onto Linux and she broke down crying at one point because learning all the new things was stressful for her, completely turned her off of Linux.
Mint isn’t for the sweaty arch-bros of the world, it’s a valuable onboarding tool for the rest of us who didn’t spend our childhood scripting shell commands to do random shit on our PC’s in grade school. IMHO, Adapt to accessibility or get the hell out of the way.
I dunno, I use Garuda and it’s an Arch distro. It’s been super user friendly and I’ve only had to learn console stuff when I wanted to mess with stuff most casual users wouldn’t be bothered with.
And maybe you would say, “well that’s not really representative of a normal Arch install” but isn’t that the point of different distros? That anyone can build on functionality to do something like make Arch more user friendly?
An update black screened his system and corrupted his time shift backups. So he gave Linux Mint a shot and has been using it for several weeks.
Could very well happen on Mint as well. Should switch to atomic, if that’s his main concern.
Mint is a good choice because it has an easy timeshift option, so a problem in an update is just a rollback/recover. Same as Snapper Rollback on distros like OpenSUSE, it means a non savvy Linux user can reboot and have it fixed. That is appealing for a lot of users that don’t want to bother with finding the fix
According to the previous comment, he had Time Shift but the files were corrupted.
Does ubuntu have this? Or does one need to install something to set this up
It could happen with anything, but since Mint 17.3 (2015) the only serious corruption I’ve experienced is during a major OS upgrade. I had far more problems with Windows.
Won’t happen with atomic. If the update fails, it just automatically rolls back.
Had a backup so it was not a big deal. Only one major issue in a decade is more than reliable enough IMO.
The dumbest possible choice, IMTO
nothing wrong with Mint, but it isnt some magical distro, and I’m so sick of hearing about it that my ears pretty much hear Linux Moist
every single “What distro should I try?” thread: “Mint” “I recommend Mint” "Why use x when you could use Mint?" “MINT!”… /rant
It is not that it is the best distro, its that it is the easier onboarding experience for a windows user
many distros fall into that category, elementary, zorin, kubuntu, etc. mint isnt even at the top of every such listI just wanna hate on the thing everyone likes, probably.just seems weird. I mean, the OP is pretty much a blatant commercial. “It just works-out-of-the-box!” yeah, they kind of all do
but mostly
I was a punkrock kid:-)Yield good sir, doth thou decide in haste? Hath thou not the good word of ZorinOS upon thine ear?
lol
It’s a gateway to SNAP, which is why it’s bad.
??? Snap support is completely removed in mint by default.
…until people who don’t know better start googlin’
Are you one of those ‘Systemd is bad’ type people too? I could see you making the argument that any distro that allows you to install systemd is bad, defaults be damned.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic. Apologies if you were.
Everyone knows that’s Ubuntu
Its bad but weirdly its the only one to get all my shit working.
I’d like to switch back to Crunchbang++ but I was having problems running some things
Thanks for the TL;DW, I can go about my Arch updates without fear now…