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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I switched to Mint about 2 years ago just to try it out for a friend who wanted to switch from windows who wasn't very tech savvy. Once I got everything set up I realized I liked it pretty well, it played all the games I wanted to play, and it ran all the programs I wanted to run through wine so why was I using Windows?

I got a new computer and just migrated the hard drive on over, and this worked but it did create some problems and it ran slowly at times, so I did a clean install a few months ago. I decided to try out Ubuntu and really did not enjoy it at all. I had to redo so much of the UI to make it how I wanted it to be that I eventually just gave up and switched back to Mint, but the latest version this time. It's been great, very few problems and runs a lot better than the version I had that was running on my old laptop first. Hell, some gaming experiences are better through proton than they are on Windows native weirdly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

welcome to the fun side of computing :3

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yoooo, how you finding it? Freeing?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everything has been a learning experience so far, but not a painful one! I feel longer I'm learning things about computers that I should've learned ten years ago.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Good to hear. It depends how deep you dive into the configuration, it can get very frustrating setting some things up. If you stick to what's popular, it should be easy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Congratulations! In my experience using it as a daily driver is a rewarding journey. Mint is a perfect choice for starting that journey.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, akschuelly, Mint is really outdated and based on Ubuntu, so unless you use debian edition its not really as good as fedora or opensuse

Ich nutze Bogen, nebenbei.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

iirc Mint removes a lot of Canonical's enshittification (i.e. snap) so... No. LMDE is more of an experiment for whenever 'cleaning' out Ubuntu turns to be much work or impossible, as a viable alternative. But right now, both Mint editions are acceptable and afaik the only difference is about using PPAs.

PS. I might be wrong, but this is what I learnt when I used those distros (around 2012-2014)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm thinking that you used "akschuelly" to make this a joke? It hasn't really worked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Im noticing that myself, thank you.