People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?

Magnolia_@lemmy.ca · edit-2 5 months ago

People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?

Taleya · 5 months ago

Because you’re dealing with lifelong windows users who want a reassuringly familiar looking OS not fucking linux techs

Jesus christ learn to tailor to the user

ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 5 months ago

Fedora does have a Cinnamon spin. The advantage of Mint is that all the Ubuntu tutorials work on it

Edit: plus Fedora’s philosophy about non-free software makes it less than ideal for people who don’t care

holgersson@lemm.ee · 5 months ago

Even if Fedora has a spin with the same DE, from my experience, Mint/Ubuntu still has a higher chance just work on a given system.

I love Fedora and use it pretty much exclusively, but the out of the box experience of Mint and Ubuntu is still a bit better for the average user imho.