The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Paul Revere Pantry Raider]

Linux Mint is the best starter distro out there

I want to disagree, but I can't. It was the only one I didn't have to fingerfuck to get running on my 2023-era laptop (other than Void). I installed PipeWire to get rid of the shitty PulseAudio crap and everything else has just been smooth sailing since. No effort required. Sleeps correctly, runs well, has that familiar nearly-Debian flavor, and minimal effort to keep running.

If I wanted to spend my waking hours on a running distribution, it would have been Void before they kicked Juan out, and after that? Dunno, because I disagree with Alpine's politics.

Mint is just great when you want Linux, but you don't want to spend time obsessing over USE flags.

 

[Dread First]

I want to disagree, but I can't. It was the only one I didn't have to fingerfuck to get running on my 2023-era laptop (other than Void). I installed PipeWire to get rid of the shitty PulseAudio crap and everything else has just been smooth sailing since. No effort required. Sleeps correctly, runs well, has that familiar nearly-Debian flavor, and minimal effort to keep running.

If I wanted to spend my waking hours on a running distribution, it would have been Void before they kicked Juan out, and after that? Dunno, because I disagree with Alpine's politics.

Mint is just great when you want Linux, but you don't want to spend time obsessing over USE flags.

I've personally had the best results using Linux Mint MATE over the Cinnamon version. There's less QOL OOTB and slightly less intuitive GUI tools, but Mint MATE feels more "authentic" than Mint Cinnamon. There's something kinda crap and unrelaxed about how Cinnamon to this day is still categorically incomplete considering how regardless of how the Mint team, Fedora developers, or any other distro maintainers package Cinnamon, you still need to rely on GNOME applications on some measure. MATE is wholly complete unto itself by sheer virtue of forking off GNOME 2.32. Cinnamon was never a hard fork from the get-go; it was a wrapper around GNOME Shell that eventually became independent.