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   TessiaEks (Is Fine) (tesseks@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 13:27:48 JST TessiaEks (Is Fine)

   Is Linux mint good? How many folk actually use it?

   One of the youtubers I watch uses it as their main OS and a podcast that talks about linux, opensource stuff also talks about linux mint a lot.

   #mint #linux #linuxmint

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     Corb_The_Lesser (corb_the_lesser@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 13:27:54 JST Corb_The_Lesser

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     @Tesseks Mint has an excellent reputation. It offers 3 desktop environments -- MATE, XFCE, Cinnamon. Cinnamon is the most modern, developed and maintained in-house. There's a focus on gradual refinement rather than adoption of shiny new things.

     Mint maintains a small number of packages itself, The other packages available to a Mint user are installed directly from Ubuntu's repositories. Ubuntu periodically migrates packages from Debian's repo to its own. (In use, none of that matters.)

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     Chris Were ⁂🐧📰🌱☕ (chriswere@toot.wales)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 13:29:52 JST Chris Were ⁂🐧📰🌱☕

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     @Tesseks It's a good distro IMHO. I've used it a lot in the past and it was really useful and helpful in getting me onto Linux full time.

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     bruhSoulz (bruhsoulz@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 13:29:57 JST bruhSoulz

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     @Tesseks cant say for myself cus i never used it, but i tell u this, mint is one distro i think i never seen anyone complain about, and thats something considering how popular it is. its probably the goto thing id hand to a gnux newb

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     Jessica Dail (ke8upe@mastodon.hams.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 13:30:01 JST Jessica Dail

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     @Tesseks I liked #LMDE when I used it. LMDE is #LinuxMint with the ability to run #Debian packages.

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     Andrew Wedlake (adventure_tense@mapstodon.space)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 13:46:15 JST Andrew Wedlake

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     @Tesseks I think Linux Mint is fantastic. I originally tested about a dozen distros to see which was a good fit for how I work, and decided to start with it. I thought maybe I would end up migrating to something else, but it's just simply a great, elegant, clean, effective, flexible, get out of your way, distro.

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     http (http@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 13:46:28 JST http

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     @Tesseks It's good enough that my youngest sibling has never called me for tech support.
     How many, is Lots. No, more than that.

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     Henrik Hemrin (hehemrin@social.librem.one)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 05:56:24 JST Henrik Hemrin

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     @Tesseks I kind of like Debian, its robustness, community and more. But Linux Mint feels more user friendly. I went for LMDE as daily driver, Linux Mint Debian Edition to come close to Debian but polished with Mint. LMDE is not as user friendly as standard Mint, for example not built in support for drivers managament. And standard Mint with Ubuntu base probably is more up to date in sw repository. It's my non-expert thoughts.

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     TessiaEks (Is Fine) (tesseks@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 05:56:25 JST TessiaEks (Is Fine)

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     I installed Debian a few months ago with LXQt as the environment and it's been pretty okay. I think I chose it over Ubuntu because I think the system requirements were lower. I know Ubuntu is pretty popular though and has like 7 different variants. Would most people pick Ubuntu over Linux Mint?