• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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      Marduk I don’t know why you chose your username but it is my favorite of all the Mesopotamian/Babylonian I forget gods so I love it when I see your name pop up. First prize! :3

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        I’ve used it forever. 90’s or early 00’s. Started with pazuzu from i think final fantasy or similar game.

        Then was thinking of ancient gods as well. Fight between Marduk and tiamat.

        Just stayed with that.

        Well glad i can bring happiness where i can. Have a great day.

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    You, too, can become a 1337 h4xx0r with this one (1) simple trick: Read the manual!

    Which is both definitely correct, but also profoundly unhelpful for newbies. But seriously, there is so much documentation, blog articles, video tutorials etc. for Linux, if you put in some effort everyone can go from newbie to hacker/programmer/gentoo user.

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      I was recommended mint to start and quickly poked around too much and reached some limitations. Took like a month. Then i switched to arch and have been on that for like a year. The docs are amazing and i have learned SO much in a v short time

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          I was trying to do stuff with start up scripting and window tile management that my mint install was having a hard time with. Arch and kde plasma fixed it

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            Sounds like your issue was more the desktop environment than the distro itself. Did you ever try to install Plasma in it? Back when I used Mint, I actually used i3-wm for a while.

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      Last time I looked, the closest thing to a “manual” published by Linux Mint was mostly a manifesto about why they’re not using various bits of Ubuntu. Sure the good old man command is still in there but Cinnamon is supposed to speak for itself.

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        True that, it’s more relevant to commandline applications and whatever has a page in the Arch wiki (which is a great resource regardless of distro). Ubuntu itself does have extensive manuals, which are mostly still useful for Mint when they’re not specifically about Ubuntu’s default desktop environment.

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    Tbh as an Arch (btw) user I’m not really some magic computer wizard, I struggle with basic python, I often forget command arguments (I take heavy advantage of fish but sometimes it doesn’t know the arguments either), I don’t know how to do much scripting, I don’t make my own config files, and my de is cosmic. Remember that most advanced Linux users are less advanced than people think (occasionally less advanced than even they think).

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      The closest thing to a programming language that i know is html. Messed around with bash once. Love arch

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      I installed arch using archinstall a few years ago just because i got sold on a custom hyperland config, never looked back.

      I have yet to understand what the fuss is all about with it being difficult or not new user friendly.

      Yes there are weekly updates, and on occasion they do break something, but that was never different on windows.

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        You do have to install/setup a lot more stuff yourself, fwiw. That’s probably largely what it is, that there’s little that comes pre-baked. It’s basically a build-a-distro toolkit.

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          Tbh i think the hypeland configuration solved pretty much all that for me.

          The project has been renamed and changed maintainer since but its still very much alive if anyone wants to check it out.

          https://github.com/HyDE-Project/HyDE

          I had never seen a tiling window manager before and my only experience on Linux was a little ubuntu server to run my Minecraft server from.

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        I’d say most of that is just outdated opinions based on a time when archinstall wasn’t yet included in the live ISO and using it was also more frowned upon and seen as a “cheat”. Thankfully we mostly got over that second part.

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      Ha, this is basically me. Still wouldn’t recommend rolling release to newbies, but my Linux knowledge is basic at best, and I’ve still used Arch for 8 years without many issues.

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    I have the Mint (it’s fucking good) and no need nor ambition for any other system. Especially an elitist shit which break after an upgrade.

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        Running Mint xfce on an N100 HTPC with couple of docker containers. I believe this is the most stable OS I ever used. Never breaks, updates are coming regularly. Easy to use for my wife who’s never seen Linux in her entire life. Makes 0 hustle and barely consumes any resources. Kind of a “set it and forget it” setup. Fucking love it!

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      Im the guy who has to tell all the kids mint is run by volunteers who are not actually up to the task of running a secure OS. It’s not as bad as manjaro but it is not good either. Please stop making this people’s first distro, it’s an ubuntu fork that hasn’t needed to exist since spins came out.

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          Why? It’s the cold hard truth. Mint was created as an Ubuntu alternative that would be prettier and appear more like windows. It has never had solid corprate backing or even pillars of the FOSS community working on it. It’s a hobby project and not even a unique one anymore. Just use a fedora, buntu, debian or suse spin for new people.

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            It has never had solid corprate backing

            This is why I love mint, among other reasons.

            Recommending Ubuntu in place of Mint is a total derangement absurd.

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            The “cold hard truth” is that volunteers are more than up to stripping some the nonsense back off of ubuntu, and plenty of the people that made it good back in the day are involved with mint now. It’s no one’s favorite but this much hate for the beigest of distros is weird to me and your take on its origins is just plain wrong

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      Mint’s a solid choice, I used Mint as a primary or only distro for 10 years, and I’ve still got it on my laptop. But don’t pigeonhole yourself trying to be not like the other girls. I’ve got Bazzite on my HTPC because Cinnamon is kind of ass at 10 feet, I’ve got Fedora KDE on my desktop for better Wayland support, and Fedora Gnome on a tablet because it’s the only thing that remotely works as a touch-first OS that I could get to actually run on that tablet.

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        See? I knew doomscrolling served a purpose. Bookmarked for the info about the tablet.

        Does it work well with low spec tablets? 2Gb RAM 32 (64?) disk?

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      haha imagine having to wait for an update to break your system (i use arch, and tried to config limine snapper sync)

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        once had arch, once cachy os, in both the cases after few weeks something was broken after update (libreoffice, matlab)

        never again

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          i actually switched from cachy to arch because when kde plasma 6.6 released it wouldn’t let me past the login screen (i’d log in, it’d start loading and freeze the system)

          i used a snapshot to roll back the update and waited for plasma 6.6.1, where instead of freezing it’d just restart. then 6.6.2 released with the same issue as 6.6.0 so i just gave up and installed arch

          btw, i still havent figured out limine+snapper configuration yet

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          I had a Kubuntu install go south on me after an update and replaced it with Cachy and I’ve been really digging it so far.