Magnolia_@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-23 days agoPeople 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?lemmy.caimagemessage-square341fedilinkarrow-up1386arrow-down1109
arrow-up1277arrow-down1imagePeople 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?lemmy.caMagnolia_@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square341fedilink
minus-squareaccideath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down1·2 days agoI think Mint is mostly for the “I have a PC that’s a few years old and want something easy and reliable to replace Windows with” crowd. Because it works great for that. It’s the perfect beginner distro.
minus-squareLiz@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoYeah absolutely zero newbies are going to buy a new computer in order to test out Linux.
I think Mint is mostly for the “I have a PC that’s a few years old and want something easy and reliable to replace Windows with” crowd. Because it works great for that. It’s the perfect beginner distro.
Yeah absolutely zero newbies are going to buy a new computer in order to test out Linux.