Marxine

Time to embrace Infinite Term Support. I’m about to go Debian too, but for other reasons

That’s the reason why I don’t main Arch. I’m already past the point where I have all the patience to tinker the conflicts away.

It’s really not primed for development. I’d use Arch, Fedora, openSUSE or Debian for that.

What Mint install did you have that had that many issues? Installing apps has been easy for a long time already, just open the app store and pick what you need. Updates is the same thing: app store > update. Whenever something breaks for some reason, there are auto-created rollbacks on the boot menu. My partner is far from being a techie and they managed every daily operation without needing help from my part.

I think we had vastly different experiences, probably because of hardware or release differences, but I never saw the kind of issues you’re commenting :/

Same here, it’s also really snappy for me.

I’ve never used it with a Nvidia card, was speaking mostly about mine and my family’s experience. I don’t currently know the state of Nvidia support on Mint at this moment, whether with the proprietary or open source drivers, so can’t give you any info on that.

About being foolproof, it’s about being easy to use without having many footguns, not about being bug free.

This is the best analogy I’ve seen for Arch.

Tbh the biggest threat is Meta’s ability to manipulate public opinion. They’ve used it to great lenghts to make the world a worse place.

Based meme, beautiful praxis.

Gaming through Steam/Proton is easy and performant, but some games have invasive anti-cheat that won’t work on Linux, and some game companies turn Linux support purposely off.

Photoshop and Lightroom both probably work through Wine (or maybe even Proton), but it isn’t guaranteed. Best option is to work with alternatives. I switched from PS to Krita years ago and have been happier than ever with the switch.

There are many resources on Linux software that are alternatives (and often compatible with) windows-only software.

Mint is right there. Very foolproof as far as I’ve tested with family and friends.

I am though

They only attacked TikTok because it’s Chinese, though. Their own data thieves are OK cause they’re buddies.

Considering I’d rather not spend the weekend troubleshooting stuff when I have my house to clean before returning to work on Monday, and a simple backup > reinstall will take me less than 6h at most (counting all customization and etc), I’ll take a full reinstall any time.

Edit: Oh, now I reread that’s about the early days. Would do the same though.

I’ve discovered his channel this year, and he seems really based. Many great takes on the tech industry and its relationship with society

They’ll probably push ads for premium users too, though

Gotta roll with it while shit’s fresh

Debian it is, then. Thanks for the heads up!

sigh Time to go back to either openSUSE or Debian…

You kind Sir/Lady/Gentleperson are making the fediverse a better place with this help. Thanks a bunch, gonna definitely ease my attempts at eventually self-hosting!