• BOMBS@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    6 months ago

    Linux Mint is the shit if you want a to have just a smooth seamless transition from Windows or a Linux OS that just works.

    • dan@upvote.au
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      6 months ago

      I pre-ordered a Framework 16 laptop and will probably try Linux Mint Debian Edition on it when it arrives.

      Debian Edition because I prefer Debian over Ubuntu.

        • dan@upvote.au
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          6 months ago

          I’ve been using Debian on servers for over 20 years. Rock solid. I like it. I like that it doesn’t have any corporate influence, and that the main repo consists only of free software. Changes are only made if there’s a good reason, unlike Canonical which seem to change things in Ubuntu just because they can.

          The last time I used Linux as a desktop OS was around 2007 so I’m excited to get back into it.

        • Ooops@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          6 months ago

          Canonical is basically the closed to corporate Linux you will find on the free distro market… They are pushing stuff you don’t want for marketing reasons (for example their own proprietary Snaps when a better working open source solution already exists with Flatpack), love their telemetry (can be mostly disabled for now, but given the defaults and their other behavior we can already see where this is heading) and in general decide more alongside their latest business plan than actually making sense or listening to users.

        • glitchy_nobody@leminal.space
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          6 months ago

          Not who you asked but, Ubuntu is basically Linux from a corporation. They are forcing people to install ‘snaps’ instead of your typical .deb package. They are like flatpaks but way worse.

          • optional@feddit.de
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            6 months ago

            Weren’t they also the first ones to add ads to their start menu, a decade before Microsoft? I’m not an Ubuntu user, so I didn’t care enough to remember the details, but I recall something about them sending your search strings to Amazon to present you with ads.