Why do all my homies use Linux Mint while I use Ubuntu?
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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Because you're wrong?
Personally I don't like snaps, is the main thing.
What are snaps?
A container format for programs, similar to Flatpak and Appimage. Snaps were developed by Canonical, and while they're technically an open standard, the only place to get them is from Canonical themselves, so it's sort of a walled-garden thing like phone app stores. Snaps tend to be slower than native packages, and Ubuntu installs the snap version of things by default.
Mint is extremely similar to (and based on) Ubuntu, but with snaps gutted out. There are other differences, but that's the biggest one
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Snap is hot garbage, and Mint is Ubuntu without Snap, so much better.
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This is true, but the people who think of Windows as easier to use are not people who install operating systems themselves.
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With archinstall script you can install Arch in less than 1 minutes (not counting copying system files)
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I want to buy a Framework laptop soon. I have the option to choose which Linux distro is best for me and load that on.
Any suggestions?
System76 has their own OS. You should start there and move on if you wanted to.
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Hey! You missed nixos!
First time install for smb. Double the windows Bar.
Second time (if you backed up your config file)
No bar!
I call bullshit. It only took me 3 hours to compile and install gentoo on my latest build and get proper desktop environment working. Granted I'm still tweaking the config files 4 years later, but it's perfect!
You can install the enterprise iot version or running chris titus's debloat script. But if you do this, you're technically savvy enough to use Linux and really want to/have to stay on Windows.
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Why is Debian more difficult than Fedora? I could understand older versions, but these days they fixed pretty much all the small annoyances. No need to use the "nonfree" iso, because that's integrated into the installer. And post install sudo works as expected out of the box. I'd say they should be equal.