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

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
You have to remember that there are two kinds of Arch users:
1. I'm elite because I use Arch
2. I like using Arch

It's the people who start using Arch just so they can be Arch Chads that are the problem. They're already elitists and are adopting Arch as a parto of their portfolio. They'll bash, but it doesn't begin or end with Linux distros. It's eveything and Linux is one thing, but Arch Linux, is very wow-look-at-me, which is the same mentality Kali users tend to have (not understanding Kali is not a Desktop/daily-driver). They're in a d*ck measuring contest.

People who genuinely like Arch, like Arch. Whether they're tinkerers, whether they like lightweight, whether they like more fine-grained control, or whether they want a decent gaming Linux (you can't beat Arch there, and I'm pretty sure that's why Manjaro -- which is kinda Archbuntu -- was spawned).

The genuine Arch users who criticise other distros don't do it any more, or any more viciously, than lots of other distros' communities. Just remember everyone's favourite distro is what they run. And logical critique is fair. So I wouldn't call it bashing. It's part and parcel for being in the Linux ecosystem.

But really, it also depends where you go. Certain online spaces are toxic and you get that bashing for anything, from choice of OS to religious beliefs. Reddit is one such example. Most places like this forum don't have an elitist culture.

Anyway, that's the not-so-short of it.
 


Reddit is among the worst of the worst.
I read r/worldnews as a matter of convenience (it's like a good summary).
As for the rest I would skip if I see the 'f' word.
But I am most annoyed by posts by the 'enlightened' in r/enlightenment or the likes. They think that get 'enlightened' is as easy as buying a coffee at Starbucks !!!
 
You have to remember that there are two kinds of Arch users:
1. I'm elite because I use Arch
2. I like using Arch

It's the people who start using Arch just so they can be Arch Chads that are the problem. They're already elitists and are adopting Arch as a parto of their portfolio. They'll bash, but it doesn't begin or end with Linux distros. It's eveything and Linux is one thing, but Arch Linux, is very wow-look-at-me, which is the same mentality Kali users tend to have (not understanding Kali is not a Desktop/daily-driver). They're in a d*ck measuring contest.

People who genuinely like Arch, like Arch. Whether they're tinkerers, whether they like lightweight, whether they like more fine-grained control, or whether they want a decent gaming Linux (you can't beat Arch there, and I'm pretty sure that's why Manjaro -- which is kinda Archbuntu -- was spawned).

The genuine Arch users who criticise other distros don't do it any more, or any more viciously, than lots of other distros' communities. Just remember everyone's favourite distro is what they run. And logical critique is fair. So I wouldn't call it bashing. It's part and parcel for being in the Linux ecosystem.

But really, it also depends where you go. Certain online spaces are toxic and you get that bashing for anything, from choice of OS to religious beliefs. Reddit is one such example. Most places like this forum don't have an elitist culture.

Anyway, that's the not-so-short of it.
The mentality you speak of is largely due to social media style attitudes. A place toxic for everybody and a place where cowards live safely behind a keyboard attacking everybody for everything. facebook is a great example. the amount of hate and bad info from there is unreal. That same attitude persists in people that think that drama and meanness is cool.

People get into a mindset of what they said is true and if proved wrong you can't change your mind, but must defend your wrong position. While an intelligent person will change his view or decision based on new information. While the other type feels weak for changing their mind no matter what information they get so they can't look weak, so instead they just look stupid defending an obviously wrong conclusion. Those same people are all about inclusion and tolerance as long as you are just like them.
 
Pfft... If they're so elite, they should use ZSH.

Ha! I crack me up!
Curiosity: IDK if it's not showing up on your dark theme, but your posts have been in grey lately... Unless it's intentional... Nice pun on shells!
 
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People get into a mindset of what they said is true and if proved wrong you can't change your mind, but must defend your wrong position. While an intelligent person will change his view or decision based on new information. While the other type feels weak for changing their mind no matter what information they get so they can't look weak, so instead they just look stupid defending an obviously wrong conclusion. Those same people are all about inclusion and tolerance as long as you are just like them.
Personally, I've never been afraid to publicly change my viewpoint on anything. Who gives a flying f**k whether or not it "looks weak" for doing so? Who cares?

I've also never had a problem with admitting when I'm wrong, or for saying sorry if I've clearly offended someone - we all have "off" days, or make a bad 'judgement call' at times (it's part of being human) - although you have to temper this last one with judgement, since some people go out of their way to find fault with you or anything you might say, and generally play on the "Look at me, I'm the 'victim' here; you should all feel sorry for me" meme.

It gets old, FAST, when they constantly run down the same old, well-worn rut in the path....

If that's the kind of attitude promoted by social media, I'm glad I have nothing at all to do with it! It would also explain much that I've noticed on-line in recent years...

(shrug...)


Mike. ;)
 
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Personally, I've never been afraid to publicly change my viewpoint on anything. Who gives a flying f**k whether or not it "looks weak" for doing so? Who cares?
I thought it's normal to change viewpoints after new experiences and information?

I've also never had a problem with admitting when I'm wrong, or for saying sorry if I've clearly offended someone - we all have "off" days, or make a bad 'judgement call' at times
Normal people try to do their best to help a stranger but it can't be expected that no one never has a day off, I'm talking about online in general when you aren't on places like Reddit.
 
Curiosity: IDK if it's not showing up on your dark theme,

The dark theme is borked. I hope to have time and motivation to work on it, as I'm now an admin. I'm not going to commit to a date and time, at this time. For now, the Solarized Dark theme doesn't scald your eyes.

(I am not selecting a text color when I post, so it should be the default color of the theme.)
 
The dark theme is borked. I hope to have time and motivation to work on it, as I'm now an admin. I'm not going to commit to a date and time, at this time. For now, the Solarized Dark theme doesn't scald your eyes.

(I am not selecting a text color when I post, so it should be the default color of the theme.)
I'm thinking that 'dark default' (now dark test) theme is probably not worth working on. I think it'll be much easier to create a new theme and use 'default' as the parent so it brings over all its css and stuff. Then - mess with the colors. I'm betting there's a good YouTube video on it.

That's what I did for the solarized dark one, but I asked chatgpt for the color palette :)
 
I'm thinking that 'dark default' (now dark test) theme is probably not worth working on. I think it'll be much easier to create a new theme and use 'default' as the parent so it brings over all its css and stuff. Then - mess with the colors. I'm betting there's a good YouTube video on it.

That's what I did for the solarized dark one, but I asked chatgpt for the color palette :)

It looked like it'd be something I could save. Before you nuke it from orbit, let me have a crack at it - if you don't mind. I'll make time to do so over the weekend. I think I can save it with just a few tweaks.
 
The dark theme is borked. I hope to have time and motivation to work on it, as I'm now an admin. I'm not going to commit to a date and time, at this time. For now, the Solarized Dark theme doesn't scald your eyes.

(I am not selecting a text color when I post, so it should be the default color of the theme.)
Here's what I mean... Just started. So far it's just your posts... I notice the dark themes' text colours are grey, too...

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...so you'd have to burn your eyes to see it (BTW: seems I can't upload images in PNG, they display only a blank colour -- hence the jpeg)


I'm thinking that 'dark default' (now dark test) theme is probably not worth working on. I think it'll be much easier to create a new theme and use 'default' as the parent so it brings over all its css and stuff. Then - mess with the colors. I'm betting there's a good YouTube video on it.

That's what I did for the solarized dark one, but I asked chatgpt for the color palette :)
Maybe, and this could be opening Pandora's box (depends on the users), but perhaps throwing up the default CSS on Git[hub | lab] or something and sorta just let users (obviously with filters to keep Vietnamese sports betting bots away) submit some stuff. Would take a lot of load off the staff. There's a forum I have on/off stages of visiting, and they let users submit banners etc. Might be fun. I've sure there are some web devs and themers here.
 
Here's what I mean... Just started. So far it's just your posts...

Yeah, I know what you mean. (I've seen it before.)

The system is applying some sort of color to my text. I have nothing selected as for the text color - it's just the default. I've not once used a different text color in all of my thousands of posts, simply because it may make it difficult to read for certain themes or those using dark mode extensions. So, I never EVER change from the default - not even on my own sites.

So, it's the system doing it and not me.

Is this one also colored funny? Right now, I'm using the new Solarized theme.
 
Is this one also colored funny? Right now, I'm using the new Solarized theme.
Right now your text is a pale grey....a bit hard to read

I use the default theme
 
If I switch to 'dark test' it appears as white print on dark background....much easier to read.
 
And the solarized dark is good to read as well ....slightly grey text on dark greenish background.

So, tis just the default that is a bit hard on the peepers
 
Yeah, I know what you mean. (I've seen it before.)

The system is applying some sort of color to my text. I have nothing selected as for the text color - it's just the default. I've not once used a different text color in all of my thousands of posts, simply because it may make it difficult to read for certain themes or those using dark mode extensions. So, I never EVER change from the default - not even on my own sites.

So, it's the system doing it and not me.

Is this one also colored funny? Right now, I'm using the new Solarized theme.
Yup... I've switched to Solarized to post this. Curious to see if it's reproducible.

Edit: Nope, not that... Most odd.

Edit: Oh great, now I've seen this theme, the default suddenly feels too bright. Guess I'm converted. It's similar to a GTK theme I used to use which was 'Nordic' (I think, I use 'Colorful-Dark' now).
 
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And the solarized dark is good to read as well ....slightly grey text on dark greenish background.

So, tis just the default that is a bit hard on the peepers
I haven't used default 'light' themes anywhere on websites that offer a 'dark' alternative for a very long time. With MY eyesight, light themes positively hurt after just a few minutes.....whereas dark themes are comfortable for hours at a time (regular 5-minute 'eye-rest' breaks notwithstanding).

Using the new Solarized Dark ATM. I like it! Frankly, I find light text on a dark background to be far more legible than dark text on a light background. Perhaps it's just me, but I began noticing this well over 40 years ago, when I was just shy of my 20s....

(shrug...)


Mike. o_O
 
Whelp...

I have no idea how to fix it. If I were to guess, I'd say the theme needs to be edited - but I'm not sure if it's everyone using the theme or if it is just me. If someone wants to do a bunch of testing, that's cool.

There are no settings for me to revert (in my account).

If I change the text to white, those using the light theme won't be able to read it. If I change the text to black, it won't show up well in this Solarized theme (or the dark theme). This is why I never change the default. The default should adjust accordingly and show the text properly.

I will make time to tinker with the dark theme. That will be sometime over the weekend, probably staying up late to do so when there's less activity.
 
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It's similar to a GTK theme

Also, Solarized is a theme used in the terminal. Many terminals offer themes and this is one of them that's common and, as far as I know, quite old. It has been an option for quite a few years, at least I think it has.
 

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