we need that bell curve meme with mint at both ends
I started my bellcurve with Redhat in the 90s, Arch in the teens and I’m back at Redhat (Fedora).
You started in the 90’s and you didn’t don the sackcloth and ashes of Slack? At least for a little bit? Ah, the joys of writing config files!
I did for a couple years. It was progressive and exciting at the time, but was kinda left behind by everything else as other distros started up. Mandrake grabbed me for a couple years, Suse at one point. I did do a Gentoo phase since at one point I would build and sell old machines as software routers with ipchains and Gentoo was a little more structured than just compiling my own kernels to keep it lightweight and fast.
Never used it as a desktop, but Debian has been with me since probably 2003ish, mainly as my email server but it’s the base of every service I run myself. Never saw a point to using anything else, including RHEL. Any time I’ve tried something else, I’ve regretted it and gone back very quickly.
Ahhh, I knew it. A Man of Culture! Or something else, I’m not sure what though. I have threatened to get an old laptop and install slack on it for fun, but I seem to be too lazy to get it done…
You mirror my travels through the Linux distros. Red Hat and Mandrake, Slack, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Suse, even Mint and now Fedora yet again. I’ve never bothered with setting up a server though, I just don’t have the need or desire.
As if anyone likes to go to an ancient kernel on free will after living on snapshots of mainline for some time…
You mean Ubuntu at both ends?
nope
Oh, I see. You’ll get there.
like I’ll end up on Ubuntu? that’s my end-game distro? what makes you think that?
Using Ubuntu once put me off switching for years. I used arch and instantly got why people like linux.
I’m rooting for you to get ahead in the bell curve.
That’s illegal! Only us big brain Arch users are allowed to say BTW! /s
In all seriousness, I’m just glad Linux is in such a good place nowadays and I was able to switch to it full time for the past few years. Much easier to get into than my first attempt in college a over decade ago.
I use BTW, BTW
i too use Big Thinking Walrus, BTW
Where’s the iso link for BTW
here it is, the BTW download file:
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/5cc02178-e0aa-4dc3-9fb8-350dc0547f50.jpeg
Linux Mint, my beloved ❤️
Bring Me The Horizon: “CAN YOU HEAR THE SILENCE?”
Me, with mild-to-moderate tinnitus: boy I sure wish I couldn’t
I use Mint DE btw. :-)
i tried mint on an old laptop for a little while and it was nice. i’m thinking of adopting linux for daily-driving when windows 10 stops being supported entirely. But i’m considering going with Bazzite when that time comes, maybe…
And, for apparently the first time, I wonder. Does Linux Mint refer to the plant/ingredient, connecting obviously with Cinnamon desktop, the green theme, and inviting variations called Linux Peppermint and Linux Spearmint? Or does it originate from being Linux, in Mint condition?
Perhaps, we can all pretend it’s the second one, and instead of *I use Mint, btw," our catchphrase can be, “I mint Linux, btw.”
Since I switched a few weeks ago I understand to urge to tell everyone about it even if they don’t want to hear.
Been on nothing but Linux since the 90s when OS/2 died
I’m a noob running PopOS on a 16 year old pc with a gtx1060 3gb and it can play cyberpunk.
popos is the one thats amazing for nvidia card havers right?
Believe so yes.
ight thx
Debian based all the way through.
But my biggest problem still persists with choosing the right distro, which has the best balanced option when considering these features?:
- out of box experience
- cutting edge gpu drivers
- stability
- beeing able to serve as headless server os
Linux Mint Debian Edition for GUI, Debian headless…
Not even Joking - Mint can do it. Override the default kernel to 6.8 (via GUI in Update Manager). I’ve been running Satisfactory on Mint with 6.8 at 4K without issue for months for example). Daily driver with rock solid uptime pedigree. Cinnamon is very comfortable and familiar and yet still very configurable if you like. I like some Mac OS niceties, so I switched mine to feel a bit more like it and use Albert for a quick launcher.
I also use it on several headless servers. Though I leave the graphics running in case I want to KVM on those machines, but never really have to… SSH if need be.
I’ve solidified and have been on Mint for like 7 years now? I just got tired of distro hopping and the team running the show does a fantastic job. Probably will switch to Debian (LMDE) - going to experiment with it soon.
