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    All I wanted to do was just watch pr0n... (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    A few months ago I finished building my system and commented that I'd installed Mint and had been enjoying it for a week. Some guy felt that he needed to suggest a different distro to me (and actually got some upvotes from people agreeing with it).

    I had JUST switched from Windows to Linux and had only been running for a week! CAN I RUN WITH ONE DISTRO FOR ONE FUCKING WEEK WITHOUT HOPPING ALL OVER THE DISTRO-SPHERE?! Holy shit. Just let me enjoy my system for 7 days without telling me I should change again.

    I was shocked someone could be so obnoxious.

    [–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Mint is a really good choice actually. Glad you didn't pick Ubuntu. :)

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

    Yup, it's an excellent pick for newcomers transitioning from Windows.

    Opinionated Ubuntu and its snap bullshit, on the other hand...

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

    For sure!

    I mean, Mint is a great distro.

    Have you tried Arch, btw?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

    As long as it was mint Debian then you are already family and have made a good choice.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I switched to linux 3 years ago. And started and stayed with pop_os. Why? Because Anthony at the time from Linus tech tips recommend it to me. Am I gonna switch? No. I use Nvidia btw.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    PopOS seems neat, I like their window manager alot.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    NGL sometimes you can only find the software you want as a snap, it sucks, but it's the price you pay for not using Windows or Mac. At the end of the day, it's Windows 11, OSX or Ubuntu for most folks outside of Lemmy. I really want to swap to Mint w Debian, but they don't have support for MATE out of the box. Maybe in a year or two. Hoping 24.04 LTS works well.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

    Debian has had MATE since forever. It's as simple as typing

    sudo apt install mate-desktop-environment

    Honestly you don't even need Ubuntu if you absolutely need snaps. You can install snapd on a lot of apt distros, or you can spin an Ubuntu container in Distrobox in a few seconds.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    Im a total noob, just started using Linux, dual booting with mint and I've already learned to use snap