• kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de
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    24 days ago

    There is no one reliable distro. Mint, itself is based off Ubuntu and also releases LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).

    If reliablility is measured in terms of how stable a distro is, then likely Debian with it’s conservative approach to packaging updates comes to mind (No wonder large number of distros are based off Debian only).

    I would even argue as long as someone isn’t messing with a niche distro such as KDE Neon( meant to showcase KDE packages) or Linuxfx (or whatever it has renamed itself to, one of the few shady ones IMO ) or Trisquel OS (a GNU certified distro where running into dependency hell isn’t new); it will suit user’s case.

    Debian, Slackware, Void, Zorin, even rolling release like Arch (basically any one that meets the user’s use case is reliable)

  • encrust9870@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I was on Arch for 14 years, but I’ve started moving to Tumbleweed. I don’t have the time to configure everything now, but this gives me near enough to bleeding edge.

  • mikerr@programming.dev
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    24 days ago

    Mint forever, Ubuntu without the snaps, and It generally is fuss free.

    Shout-out to antiX though, revived many a “useless” old laptop with that.

  • texture@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    imo the rumor that mint is the easiest is harmful to the whole ecosystem. it implies there arent countless other easy distros and stifles accurate choices for many new people.

  • Unauthorised User@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I admire how Linux Mint makes it easy to set things up for the user’s liking. Also, it gives so much confidence to the end user in learning the new platform.

    • Strider@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      From the bottom of my heart fuck rolling releases. Never worked for me (nobody get worked up please, ymmv).

      • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        24 days ago

        lol it’s funny how proactively defensive everyone is about their distro choices

        I use a Mac for my server 🤓

    • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
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      24 days ago

      I’ve been living with fedora (ultramarine) kde for a while now because people praised fedora so much, but i think mint still wins. and i chose ultramarine because am a noob, don’t sue me.

      there are many little things that just don’t work and i seriously can’t figure out. here’s a few: discover fails to update the system and i always have to do it manually from the terminal. wine is broken, it literally can’t run anything i throw at it that worked on mint. plasma theme customization is somewhat broken (also custom themes prevent updating…). using alt key in games run with wine causes some annoying notification sound (not in system keyboard shortcuts). often keyboard leds stay on when system suspended, system can’t be woken up from keyboard. can’t use flameshot with kb shortcut.

      this isn’t a hate comment though, a lot of things are better than i had with mint cinnamon. i do like how it’s a lot faster than mint when under heavy load, autosuspend actually works, no issues with screen not waking up. currently my media pc with mint can’t update because all sources are unavailable and it has some conflict with python3 which it won’t let me uninstall (which i suspect would be unwise, idk)

      • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        24 days ago

        I can only recommend regular Fedora because I have a feeling you just wouldn’t have those issues but I am not a doctor.

    • satanmat@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      Kinoite Ride or die

      FOR ME it does the things I need it to do; and it works; and hasn’t blown up my house yet so 🤞

    • BlueAure@infosec.pub
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      24 days ago

      I’m really enjoying Bazzite for gaming and uCore for servers. It’s reassuring knowing that I can just rebase and revert to a known good state with working drivers easily. Highly recommend a try

    • LostWanderer@fedia.io
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      24 days ago

      Bazzite is nice, I’m running it at the moment. The gaming customizations are nice and having the latest kernel stable+NVIDIA open drivers is swell. You can even use Distroshelf (to emulate a distro) and App pass through to install apps that don’t have a Flatpak version. Or package layering, which is needed for VPNs like Mullvad to work properly; that’s also pretty easy to manage, so I never feel like I don’t have access to software. Too bad stock Fedora cannot be arsed to make NVIDIA drivers brain dead easy at the time of installation.