Dayum, 9 years ago i started with mint and distro hopped a bit then daily drived arch for many years, and now I’m back to lmde6, so you ain’t gotta call me out like that
More like Fedora with a bunch of VMs
Guy on the right will use Debian stable, rest is correct.
Hell yeah LMDE
I just wish they had it w MATE
Thats the best mint flavor
hell yeah debian
Yeah I agree with the sentiment, use whatever is good for you, but I feel like most advanced linux users are not using Mint. They typically come to the realization that everything is either Debian, Arch, or build it yourself so they use one of those.
Does Gentoo already count as “build yourself” on your list?
Man, might swap to Debian 12, trying it on my netbook, it’s nice.
I’m running Debian 12 for while now and it works great. Gossip says you need to get everything from flatpak because the packages are so outdated, but that’s bullshit.
I get newer packages on my netbook then my desktop running u Ubuntu 22.04.
Hell Cinnamon DE is literally an install option on Debian. LOL.
idk man, i just like me a good non derivative distro. Debian, arch, nix, gentoo, whatever as long as it has less hands it’s being passed through im happy.
Having a custom distro that installs some extra frequently used software by default is no problem for me.
for me that’s just a script that auto installs the software i need at minimum to be productive. Gimme an X server, i3wm, and some applications to compliment it and i’ll be one very happy user.
nixos ftw
Ah, End of The Linux pipeline
You are missing the “Cinnamon on Arch” guy a little further up the scale, but you gotta crop somewhere I guess 🤷
Debian FTW
Two choices in the end game.
Ready to go out of the box? Mint.
Bare install where you pick your programs? Debian.
And then there’s the secondary question for some of us… the machine you game on?
Ready to go? Fedora, Pop, or several other choices.
Bare install where you pick your programs? Arch.
Hard to tell if the 𝑦-axis is population or loudness
I run Tumbleweed btw.
Different distros are better at different things. Need a stable distro for your grandma? Use Debian or Mint. Need latest software? Use Arch or Gentoo. (And people do need latest software sometimes. For playing games, or in my case, for doing research. The F is FOSS stands for Free after all.) Similarly, there are server distros like AlmaLinux tuned for high reliability. I think it’s counterproductive to argue about the “best” distro.
I guess the meme technically doesn’t say that Mint is the best, but it kinda gives off that feeling by ridiculing Arch users.
I see more posts complaining about annoying arch users than I actually see annoying arch users
That being said, hell yeah mint
Arch user here. Mint is cool. Go mint!
Manjaro user here, they’re both cool
Of course Mint is cool. If it wasn’t it’d be Spice.
Cinnamon hearts DE is pretty spicy. Perfect counterpart to Spearmint OS.
I wish mint + AUR was a thing
Pacstall is AUR for Ubuntu (so UUR?) based distributions. It is certainly less complete than AUR, but still it might be useful depending on your needs.
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I’d rather trust an Ubuntu community repo than the snap store. At least, for pacstall, the community is able to review the package.
Since the snap store is the default store on Ubuntu , there is more chance that he will be targeted by malicious software than a community repo than has to be manually installed.
My only issue with mint is that it is downstream of Ubuntu so I feel like the maintainers have to spend too much effort fixing kinks and bypassing Canonical’s dumb ideas.
LMDE is cool too, but then its too stable and doesn’t have all the nice UI features of regular mint lol.
I find it amusing and interesting that a heap of people work hard to create Debian, then a bunch of other people build on it to create Ubuntu, then a third group of people do a heap of additional work to wind back some of the changes to create Mint.
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Use Arch if you want maintaining your system to be a hobby in its own right. Use Mint if you just want something that works.
I don’t even update my Arch setup that often. Most of my stuff lives in flatpaks. I just want updated software and rolling release, which Arch is the best for that.
Arch is great if you want to customize your system, but I wouldn’t say it really needs “maintaining” beyond just updating more frequently. (which you don’t even really need to do very often, you just have the option to get newer versions of software.)
Unless you want two monitors with different scaling.
Same with Manjaro 🤟
i’ve had manjaro break way more than normal arch
Jeez, no. Use endeavouros
The funny thing is, I feel like I have to maintain my arch system less than Windows
It’s definitely not as bad as people make out. That said, I only run Arch on my main machine, and Debian on the rest. Just in case, you understand.
Definition of standing on the shoulders of giants. Even from the start when it offered the codecs Ubuntu didn’t mint has been there. Same for arch want something specified but don’t want to start at a lfs or Gentoo it has your back all you have to do is read up on the bits you want. I think it’s amazing that for me the best distros are still community ones.
LFS is the linux pilgrimage that turns noobs into greybeards. Whrn it work uou erase it and install debian.
Well, I’m still in the noob stage and i intend to stay there. My OS is just a means to an end and Mint is perfect for that.
That’s fine. Most people aren’t “Windows pros” either.
My windows have arches, BTW.
Saaaame. Been using Mint almost exclusively for 5-10 yrs and i still feel like im playing in the wading pool of what u can do with it. I learn more as I need to, and generally enjoy that process. I always feel super satisfied with myself when i use the terminal, even if its sudo apt-get install Firefox.
Whenever I need to do something, I’ll figure it out. Sometimes it’s a pain, like getting VNC to work. But then I’ll write down the most important bits and duly forget the rest. I just want this stuff to work.
