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  • It’s easy to install, it’s Ubuntu based which means stable and a wide variety of software and support. Cinnamon looks beautiful in Mint and works perfectly. Installing a deb is a breeze and using the App Store is way easier than using YAST. The cli commands are now easy to understand or remember compared to apt.

    Fedora usb creation is a nightmare and can potentially f up your bios if something goes wrong. DNF is also but easy to understand or remember compared to apt.

    Gnome is too barebones for a first time user whereas Cinnamon is feature rich and is themed very well. Plus great wallpapers are included. The lock screen wallpapers are easily changed and look great too.

    As long as there is no removed Nvidia card the driver installation tends to work perfectly. Don’t use Nvidia people. They are a removed, unethical, don’t give a crap about Linux company. Use AMD.

    And for Linux users who’ve been around longer, there’s Linux Mint Debian Edition which for us is even better because it’s not Ubuntu based but Debian based and stable.

    I get the latest Firefox directly from Mozilla and any app I can’t find in Synaptics I can normally get in Flatpak. Works perfectly well for me. I highly recommend it.


  • danielfgom@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml“Systemd is the future”
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    4 months ago

    So are we all ok with Microsoft now being in charge of systemd? The same company made famous by Blue Screens of Death?

    When I consider this, it makes me think Linux has lost. Do you think Microsoft would let the Linux community be on charge of The Registry? Or any other part of the OS?

    Mac may be the only decent option left…?





  • Wait for the distro to officially release an upgrade path. Only do a fresh install if it doesn’t work.

    On Windows however whenever I would get a new pc in which I was prepping for staff(I worked in IT) the first thing I’d do after unboxing it is a wipe of the factory Windows install and do a clean install with the latest ISO from Microsoft.

    No bloatware, network managers, anti virus etc nonsense. We had all of our own stuff for that which applied via Group Policy anyway.





  • It’s not a conspiracy. All I was saying is that by breaking backwards compatibility downstream either has to comply or find another way.

    As another commentor has mentioned, gnome did actually inform downstream a good while back but downstream did not engage, so gnome obviously proceeded with their own project how they saw fit. Which is the right way of course.

    Downstream should have tried to engage and perhaps found a good work around but sadly didn’t.

    So they’ll have to work it out now by themselves.






  • Gnome Foundation likes to think of themselves as the pioneer in DE’s and the default choice for Linux. Which was true for a long time. Cinnamon and Mate run Gnome, for example. I’m not sure about XFCE.

    If you’re THE leading DE project at least try to accommodate those DE’s that depend on your code or meet with them to inform them well in advance and discuss the best options for those DE’s.

    In other words, work together for the good of all users instead of doing your own little thing in the corner and leave the others to deal with the mess you made…