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Mint. I just don’t get it. It’s Ubuntu but “different”? I heard a lot of people have issues with it. But also a lot of people love it and always recommend it.
To be fair I never used it and it’s probably fine/great but I just have a weird unfounded hate for it
It’s Ubuntu, but includes proprietary drivers by default if detected. Also the menu is very similar to windows.
It’s got a slightly different store and update app, which also allows you select automatic updates or not etc. it’s a bit friendlier than Ubuntu tbh.
At the same time it can be wonky in its own right. For example I put it on my kids laptop. And rfkill kept disabling the wifi based on a bios setting allowing the wifi to be disabled if a nic was connected and during wake-up from s3 sleep the system would briefly falsely detect a nic and kill wifi.
Disabling the setting in bios was all that was needed. But searching the issue, even for me, led to a LOT of bad advice and threads on their forums.
It is community-run and works around ubuntu’s questionable commercial moves (not including snap and maintaining their own debs for Firefox and Chromium) while developing their own software that I believe are generally more user-friendly than their equivalents in Ubuntu and other distros (the cinnamon desktop, the software manager and the updater, the welcome panel, system reports…)
Mint. I just don’t get it. It’s Ubuntu but “different”? I heard a lot of people have issues with it. But also a lot of people love it and always recommend it.
To be fair I never used it and it’s probably fine/great but I just have a weird unfounded hate for it
It’s Ubuntu, but includes proprietary drivers by default if detected. Also the menu is very similar to windows.
It’s got a slightly different store and update app, which also allows you select automatic updates or not etc. it’s a bit friendlier than Ubuntu tbh.
At the same time it can be wonky in its own right. For example I put it on my kids laptop. And rfkill kept disabling the wifi based on a bios setting allowing the wifi to be disabled if a nic was connected and during wake-up from s3 sleep the system would briefly falsely detect a nic and kill wifi.
Disabling the setting in bios was all that was needed. But searching the issue, even for me, led to a LOT of bad advice and threads on their forums.
It is community-run and works around ubuntu’s questionable commercial moves (not including snap and maintaining their own debs for Firefox and Chromium) while developing their own software that I believe are generally more user-friendly than their equivalents in Ubuntu and other distros (the cinnamon desktop, the software manager and the updater, the welcome panel, system reports…)