Is Mint looked down on by those who use more 'advanced' distros?

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Judging by the downtimes yesterday it is not fixed here.
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it's not bad here, annoying at times but definitely not bad, the Parrotsec forums came back on this week, they had been down for over a month
 
You would have thought people would have learned from the Dr Suess Sneeches story. Basically as far as I am concerned there is no right distro or wrong distro. It is whatever works best on your machine. What you are comfortable with.
 
I’m late to the party here. As a long-time Linux user, yes there is sometimes snobbery in certain communities against users of other Linux distributions. You see it a lot. But opinions are like butt-holes. Everybody’s got one, you just shouldn’t publicly flaunt it at every possible opportunity, or criticise others for theirs.

So yes, some communities can be extremely toxic. Luckily, we don’t tolerate any of that nonsense here.

There are very minor differences between each Linux distribution and some minor advantages/disadvantages to each. But are any of those differences, advantages, or disadvantages significant? Not really.

The differences between the various Linux distributions are mostly cosmetic.
  • Different default desktop/WM.
  • Different set of software installed by default.
  • Different kernel versions with different configurations.
  • Different attitudes towards the inclusion of non-free software.
  • Different package managers/packaging formats.
  • Older software vs recent software vs bleeding-edge software
  • User control vs User convenience
Etc.

At the end of the day, install and use whatever works for you and best fits the way that you want to work. Whether it’s a so called ‘beginner’ distribution, or an ‘advanced’ one.

And if anybody has a problem with your choices and chooses to be a toxic snob, that’s entirely a reflection on them, not you.
 
Eloquently said, my friend :) (I adore that opinions/buttholes analogy, I might snaffle that).

If you are no stranger to different distros none of this would be a problem.

I guess I am a living embodiment of that, as a philosophy.

I use 67 distros currently, from 4 different Families. I have run up to 89, then reorganised my drives.

I do not have a fixed daily driver.

I do not have a favourite (well, maybe 10 or so).

If I do not like a distro, it has a short life in my stable.

Basically I am distro agnostic, which is also what this site is.

Enjoy your Linux/Linuxes

Wizard
 
Well I have a CQ42 compaq I rescued from the Tip Shop (Recycle Shop). Tried Mint on it with LXDE and it was slow booting my normal go to for machines these days. So tried Lubuntu slightly faster still hung at boot a bit, so tried WattOS and what a difference for this machine. So this proves that one distro is not suitable for all machines. Doesn't make those distros bad though. I still love Mint on my Thinkpad.
 
Eloquently said, my friend :) (I adore that opinions/buttholes analogy, I might snaffle that).



I guess I am a living embodiment of that, as a philosophy.

I use 67 distros currently, from 4 different Families. I have run up to 89, then reorganised my drives.

I do not have a fixed daily driver.

I do not have a favourite (well, maybe 10 or so).

If I do not like a distro, it has a short life in my stable.

Basically I am distro agnostic, which is also what this site is.

Enjoy your Linux/Linuxes

Wizard
What I said is that people should stop bashing distros because all of them are the same with some esthetic differences. This is one OS so why some feel compelled to complain? Sounds ridiculous.
I don't understand what "distro agnostic" means unless you want to stress out that you don't care about the color because after loading desktop default color is the first difference to notice. :)
 
Hi, hello, alright?

I was doing some Reddit browsing last night and ended up on a Linux sub. It was mostly serious posts and people asking for help with a few things but there was the odd post that was more for poking fun at Windows users and those who have never heard of Linux. Whilst reading through a few of these posts and the comments, I came across a thread of replies where somebody had commented something along the lines of "Mint has been dead for years". That had a lot of upvotes on it, and a load of people agreeing with this.

Now, Im using Mint on this laptop, and I also have 2 other laptops both running Arch, but I only use this one because of how stable Mint is and the fact nothing ever seems to go wrong. Whatever you do on Mint it just runs without issue and that is what got me thinking about that post. With how stable Mint is, everything just working and the fact that there are clearly still enough people using it to warrant anybody maintaining and updating it, is this view something anyone else has heard others have?
As mentioend above I am no stranger to distros such as Arch among a few others and those are something I really enjoy, but knowing I can just turn this laptop on and have it do as I want without it fighting me or making any sort of fuss is a huge selling point for me - Im past the point of being entertained by system maintenance when I have the option to just power on this laptop and have it all doing its job without issue.
I do not believe people look down on mint. I personally think it looks too much like windows but that is the attraction for some.

I think that there are mint elitists out there that constantly push mint like a kissing booth operator at a garlic festival.

I think there are many mint people that look down on the other distros.

I am a fedora person myself.
 
CQ42 compaq
Not at all surprised, made in 2010 as an office desktop, it came with the P6100 CPU and 2gb ram even if the ram has been upped the CPU has fairly poor performance [it not as good as the earlier T4500 which ran Mint without issue] for the Compaq I could only recommend lightweight distributions, you could try Mint LMDE or Debian stable, but Personally I would not expect much
 
I decided to think a bit. As I recall, Mint's big claim to fame (originally) was that it came packaged with proprietary things like codecs, Flash player, (LOL, remember that?!?), the files needed to play DVDs, and other assorted binary bits and bobs. This, of course, made it easier. It still does come with those, but you now need to tick the box to enable them during installation.

That might account for some of the dislike. From a purist's standpoint, those are horrible things. (Good luck doing much without them, but here we are...) As I recall, there was even some question about the legality of such, as Mint doesn't necessarily have the rights to distribute them. I think that question has been answered with a resounding, "Who cares?"
 
I decided to think a bit. As I recall, Mint's big claim to fame (originally) was that it came packaged with proprietary things like codecs, Flash player, (LOL, remember that?!?), the files needed to play DVDs, and other assorted binary bits and bobs. This, of course, made it easier. It still does come with those, but you now need to tick the box to enable them during installation.

That might account for some of the dislike. From a purist's standpoint, those are horrible things. (Good luck doing much without them, but here we are...) As I recall, there was even some question about the legality of such, as Mint doesn't necessarily have the rights to distribute them. I think that question has been answered with a resounding, "Who cares?"
agree with you. I have always packaged my fedora with all the extras needed for video and audio. All the things mint got its fame for but the others do it too just have to install the right stuff.
 
I don't understand what "distro agnostic" means unless you want to stress out that you don't care about the color because after loading desktop default color is the first difference to notice. :)

If you type into you favourite search engine

linux distro agnostic

...you will get an idea.

Flatpak, Snap and AppImage are distro agnostic package distribution software, you can use them on a multitude of distros.

If a Linux Forum website focuses on only one Distro, eg Mint, or Ubuntu, or Fedora or Arch, it is distro-centric.

Our website here covers all Linux Distros, as does www.linuxquestions.org/

We are distro agnostic websites.

I am a distro agnostic Linux User.

Cheers

Wizard
 
If you type into you favourite search engine

linux distro agnostic

...you will get an idea.

Flatpak, Snap and AppImage are distro agnostic package distribution software, you can use them on a multitude of distros.

If a Linux Forum website focuses on only one Distro, eg Mint, or Ubuntu, or Fedora or Arch, it is distro-centric.

Our website here covers all Linux Distros, as does www.linuxquestions.org/

We are distro agnostic websites.

I am a distro agnostic Linux User.

Cheers

Wizard
I understand that Arch or Fedora sites are distro centric but this does not make sense from user stand point. Unless you are saying that LFS user is hopeless with Arch or Fedora. This would be interesting to see.
I did search for differences between Arch Fedora and Debian
These are "philosophical" differences.
From my experience as user, knowing well one distro means one knows them all.
 
I totally get what you're saying! Mint's stability and simplicity make it a go-to for people who want reliability without the hassle. Sometimes, it's just about getting things done without constantly tweaking things.
that is where I make my money. I do the install and tweaks. That way the user has the same experience of simplicity as mint. Tweaks are not difficult, in fact I have them scripted.
 
I totally get what you're saying! Mint's stability and simplicity make it a go-to for people who want reliability without the hassle. Sometimes, it's just about getting things done without constantly tweaking things.
hmmm.. I installed Linux on my current laptop more than 3.5 yrs ago. One install only. Not Mint. Works fine no tweaking except what was done post install. My previous laptop had single Linux (also not Mint) installation for 5yrs. Because laptop died I had to get a new one and install Linux.
Whatever works for you. There are popular distros that (all of them) are stable assuming that user let them.
So if you want stability and simplicity any of these distros will work and any of them will fail if user make them.

By the way if I recall this correctly, licensed drivers video and audio were also provided by Ubuntu.
 
Well... latest to the party of all...
Hi, hello, alright?

I was doing some Reddit browsing
That's where you went wrong. Now if you'd said:
I was doing some browsing
I'd be surprised.

I've mentioned it before and I will say it again: Reddit is a cesspool of younger Millennials and GenZs who hide their constant need for affirmation by presenting themselves as authorities on subjects they know nothing about beyond what they have learned to parrot. Do yourself a favour and avoid Reddit unless you're lurking on the socio-politically-charged subs just for shizas and giggles.
Don't ever go looking for serious advice on 90% of Reddit (there will be outlier subs); rather get a Ouija board as they're more reliable and they don't need an internet connection. Here's a link: https://www.amazon.com/wooden-ouija-board/s?k=wooden+ouija+board -- happy shopping, you're welcome.

In the bashing topic, TBH, I would love to see all this "distro bashing" (I mean here mainly, though anywhere reputable -- Reddit is toxic on almost every topic). Maybe I don't notice it... Or... Truth be told there's a line between objective criticism and bashing.
 
Well... latest to the party of all...

That's where you went wrong. Now if you'd said:

I'd be surprised.

I've mentioned it before and I will say it again: Reddit is a cesspool of younger Millennials and GenZs who hide their constant need for affirmation by presenting themselves as authorities on subjects they know nothing about beyond what they have learned to parrot. Do yourself a favour and avoid Reddit unless you're lurking on the socio-politically-charged subs just for shizas and giggles.
Don't ever go looking for serious advice on 90% of Reddit (there will be outlier subs); rather get a Ouija board as they're more reliable and they don't need an internet connection. Here's a link: https://www.amazon.com/wooden-ouija-board/s?k=wooden+ouija+board -- happy shopping, you're welcome.

In the bashing topic, TBH, I would love to see all this "distro bashing" (I mean here mainly, though anywhere reputable -- Reddit is toxic on almost every topic). Maybe I don't notice it... Or... Truth be told there's a line between objective criticism and bashing.
I agree with you. Tired of people that flip burgers for a living giving out advise on things and being totally wrong. As you said they regurgitate what they hear especially if it is wrong. Reddit is among the worst of the worst.
 
Well... latest to the party of all...

That's where you went wrong. Now if you'd said:

I'd be surprised.

I've mentioned it before and I will say it again: Reddit is a cesspool of younger Millennials and GenZs who hide their constant need for affirmation by presenting themselves as authorities on subjects they know nothing about beyond what they have learned to parrot. Do yourself a favour and avoid Reddit unless you're lurking on the socio-politically-charged subs just for shizas and giggles.
Don't ever go looking for serious advice on 90% of Reddit (there will be outlier subs); rather get a Ouija board as they're more reliable and they don't need an internet connection. Here's a link: https://www.amazon.com/wooden-ouija-board/s?k=wooden+ouija+board -- happy shopping, you're welcome.

In the bashing topic, TBH, I would love to see all this "distro bashing" (I mean here mainly, though anywhere reputable -- Reddit is toxic on almost every topic). Maybe I don't notice it... Or... Truth be told there's a line between objective criticism and bashing.
Ha! Well yeah you're right there, I probably shouldnt have mentioned I was on Reddit at all!
Reddit is a source of great amusement for me - it doesnt matter what youre looking for, whether it is some specialised sub aimed at gaming or something in general like a sub for your home town, there is always something worth a quick laugh. In my hometown sub, there arent many posts at all aside from one person asking if anybody knows of any local dealers, and another talking about the name of a bridge. After that, it is post after post of rugby as we have quite a well known team here.
Its hard to disagree that everybody there is a self approved God in any given subject, but I do have to say that there are a few people that have given me some really good advice on a few different subjects, computer based and otherwise. Still, Im not disagreeing with you.

I'll get on with finding a Ouija board now, something that compliments my living space of course.

You say you'd love to see distro bashing - we all know how bad the Arch communtiy can be, not all the time of course but a lot of people take it upon themselves to make it know Arch is the best for one reason or another. Dont you ever notice that those people do more bashing than others? Thats a genuine question by the way, I dont really come on here or many other forums too much and a crowd like that seem the ideal candidate for a distro basher
 

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