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( Yes iam a real person ) @boxy@wetdry.worldlinux nerds desperately repressing their hatred for linux mint so they can tell windows 7 users to use it
@boxy there is hatred for mint?
:EA DATA. SF: 
@10volt @boxy i definitely feel like it's completely overrated
and also has a knack for nuking itself out of existence because it's 2023 and apt still hasn't figured out that if something removes a package while installing one, there's something terribly wrong going on
especially if that package is the entirety of xorg
@limepeep@kitty.social@10volt@wetdry.world @boxy@wetdry.world There is. I remember one Linux Youtuber, Matt of The Linux Cast, stating how he felt that it was overrated.
Personally, I feel that beginners shouldn't only be recommend Windows-style Linux distros. Numerous people have went along fine with Ubuntu, which has GNOME as its interface, as their first distro. GNOME (or at least customized versions of it) are easy enough to learn that I feel that it's not one of the main hurdles when switching to Linux.
lily 
θΔ ⋐ & ∞ @tauon@possum.city@boxy@wetdry.world who hates linux mint. it has linux in it
@syphist@zoner.work@boxy@wetdry.world I used mint about a decade ago. And I liked it a lot then. I'm rather unhappy with Arch on the computers I run it on, and I'm considering LMDE and using flatpaks to keep programs up to date.
@boxy the only reason why i don't really like it is because i have an eternal hatred for ubuntu, but i do think that mint is the best starter distro (unless you're on 1-2.5 year old hardware)
@boxy i just think it's crazy that mint is based off ubuntu which is based off debian. how much deeper will we go
@boxy mint is alright but like that one other reply said i always just use fedora
Luana
@boxy honestly mint is reasonable i just prefer fedora