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    Linux Mint: am I a joke to you

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    [–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I'll have a...

    Meme that says 'Ubuntu bad'

    How original

    And lots of upvotes

    Daring today aren't we

    [–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's fun to rag on how much of a POS your first car was, even though you secretly remember it fondly. That's Ubuntu's place now.

    Me with Mint.

    I also love cars and double love shitboxes despite having nicer cars now.

    I still drive my shitbox most.

    [–] LovePoson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    Never was my first car... or any for that matter actually

    [–] nx2@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No? The meme says Ubuntu based distros that don't change anything bad

    [–] cholesterol@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

    Eh, okay. Still seems to ride the Ubuntu-bashing vibe.

    [–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Mint gets rid of snaps, distros that don't are just bad imo.

    [–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It even has a Debian based release

    [–] dustyData@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I wish eventually it'd become the he facto version. But Debian is so slow to update. Apparently kids these days get anxious if they don't have a system update every other hour and they buy new hardware every weekend. So Debian is too old school to be useful to them.

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I'm curious what do people here consider "old" since that's the top complaint about Debian? It's never more than a year or two behind "bleeding edge" distros. When I think "old", I'm thinking 10, 15 years ago. That's considered "old" in the Windows world, but I guess that's super ancient geological history in the Linux world.

    [–] guskikalola@social.vivaldi.net 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    @TimeSquirrel @RmDebArc_5 @nottheengineer @SomeBoyo @dustyData For gaming one year is old, you want the latest drivers in order to achieve maximum performance ( * or at least increase your chances to ).
    For office or media consumption maybe one year isn't old at all.

    Thats what I believe

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    As not a gamer, I keep forgetting about games and that people also use computers to play them.

    @TimeSquirrel @RmDebArc_5 @nottheengineer @SomeBoyo @dustyData Imo gaming is the only reason to use bleeding edge distros. Otherwise is risky, your system could break with every update.
    Even though I said that I also use Arch for uni stuff, but I have everything backed on my own server and in the case of system failure I can simply reinstall arch and mount my network drive again

    [–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Nevermind "maximum performance", back when Elden Ring came out I needed a fresh version of mesa to get it to run at all. That was on Ubuntu, but I doubt Debian would have been any better. At least it was an easy fix to get fresher mesa from a PPA.

    [–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    What about Debian testing/sid?

    [–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    They're great but definitely not for beginners.

    [–] sirico@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago

    Every youtube review

    [–] irmoz@reddthat.com 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bashing Ubuntu is getting really fucking old.

    [–] callyral@pawb.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I personally prefer Zshing Ubuntu

    [–] XCraftMC@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

    I'm more of a fishing kinda guy but whatever floats your boat.

    as a windows user who is planning to switch to linux mint im gonna have to bash Ubuntu by calling it red arch since i assume people are making fun of the best distro linux mint

    [–] ipsirc@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

    …and be userfriendly and must be lightweight on my brand new 32core ryzen.

    [–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    When I used Mint about 6 years ago, I sometimes got into trouble with Mint's weird update system. They were also telling users to reinstall instead of updating when there's a new LTS, which is kinda ridiculous IMO.

    I'm probably not the typical Mint user, though.

    [–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They recently made a tool that handle the update to a new LTS. I upgraded from mint 20 to 21 and it went very well aside from the the printer stopping. Tried everything and it still doesn't work. It's not even a modern DRM galore bullshit printer, It's an ancient canon lbp6000 laser printer so I honestly don't know why it stopped.

    If anyone got any idea how to fix it, I'd highly appreciate it.

    [–] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

    I’m so sorry… it seems like your printer has daemons in it…

    [–] thenumbersmason@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Make sure CUPS is running, go to http://localhost:631 to see the administration interface for CUPS. You'll probably wanna checkout the ArchWiki page about CUPS too, it's relevant to many distributions. If it's a USB printer and not IPP you'll need to make sure the right drivers are being used. IPP printers work outta the box.

    [–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Thanks a ton for your help. Yes, it's a USB printer and I got it originally working in mint 20 by installing the driver using a github script because the official driver didn't work for some reason. Hopefully, it will work again. Thanks again.

    [–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    Run the script again?

    [–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
    [–] LovePoson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    LMDE: The cooler Daniel

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

    Meh. I've been rocking Debian based distros ever since Aptitude was released on Debian stable. Which distro just depends on how much free time I have to F around the computer. Lots of time? Something that updates fast. My child was born? I want something rock solid and immutable for years because I don't want to waste time learning new stuff.

    cry harder red arch user linux Mint is wayyyy better for a previous windows user

    [–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

    I actually have a bit of an interesting combo. I use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with xfce4 and xubuntu-desktop added after the fact with my install that used the regular Ubuntu installer, because the last time I used the XUbuntu installer, it was buggy for me. lol

    Oh my fucking god i actually fucking hate this shitty ass meme templete holy fuckkkkk