Which distro do you believe deserves more recognition?
Which distro do you believe deserves more recognition?
For me it's PeppermintOS.
I started my Linux adventure a few years ago, and haven't owned a Windows PC since.
I currently use Arch on my main rig, and I wanted to install Linux on two old laptops that I found laying around in my house
I then remembered the first distro I ever used, which is PeppermintOS, and I was amazed at the latest updates they released.
They even have a mini ISO now to do a net-install with no bloat, with a Debian or Devuan base.
Sadly, I believe the founder passed away a few years ago, which is why I was really happy to see the continuation of this amazing project.
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Mint is surprisingly loved and disliked from what I have seen. Having used it since 2007 I am in the category that likes it for what it is. But I am somewhat surprised by the open hostility it gets for simply existing. Main arguments being that it is a dinosaur, uses X11, should not exist because anything not KDE or GNOME is just diluting desktop Linux and is part of the problem. It has no fancy corporate sponsor, it has a small team, and it for sure has warts, but you can claw Linux Mint from my cold dead hard drive because I have distro hopped like an addict and it just checks the boxes for me. It shows up and works, even on newer hardware with a little tweaking here and there, but I can use Nvidia, find network printers without effort, scan, install and update flatpak, backup the system, game, and get actual work done that is not fiddle farting around with esoteric configs all the time. I can post on actual forums with actual users on it and not some discord where someone will just post memes over my questions. I have a strong feeling it will exist for a long while given it's history. And it is mind numbingly borning as an OS. I just sit down and compute, what a concept.
If there was only a way to get automatic tiling on cinnamon it’d be my favorite desktop by far. Everything you need, nothing you don’t, sensible by default. It’s the right option for most people I think
Excellent - I'm about to install it for my aged mother, because windows keeps moving her cheese.
I want something that doesn't change the workflows once she's learned how to do a task, and that local techs can help her with, and that I can VNC to when I have to.
You can configure the system for backup and auto updates which is handy to keep it secure without any interaction. Only reason I ever had it fail was entirely me screwing it up, usually by distro hopping and formatting wrong.
How can someone speak such truth. Agree it is not perfect. But it just works and really well. Only big controversy I can think of is the website being hacked a couple of years ago, but they were open and transparent in my opinion about the hole thing. Also disto hoped a lot but I am always brought back to "green Ubuntu". Can Mint team get ontop of Wayland please
Speaking as a relative linux noob, Mint is probably the most recommended distro I've seen now that Ubuntu jumped the shark. Not sure how anyone could think it needs more recognition.
Mint was my second distro and the first I actually stayed on. Versions 19.3, 20 and 20.1 were near-perfect. But I remember having a serious bug with 20.2 which made me unable to install software from the very start. Which forced me to downgrade.
Starting with versions 21-21.2 I got bugs related to the Cinnamon desktop in every new release. It's honestly become so annoying, I am not sure if I'm gonna continue using Mint in the future.
Right now I'm on HamoniKR, which is a distro based on Mint 20.3, and it's working near-flawlessly. I decided to use it instead of actual Mint 20.3 because the latter will reach its EOL in Apr 2025, and I'm hoping the HamoniKR team will roll out updates for their own distro like Deepin does for their Debian 10-based version. Because it's almost 2024 and they still haven't announced the new version of HamoniKR, yet I can see their website is very active. I can only assume they have some sort of long-term plan for this release. If not though, I'll check out whatever the new Mint version will be by then, and if it's still buggy, will switch to either a distro with either Gnome or KDE, both of which would be far from ideal.
Also, I gotta say, the community surrounding Mint can sometimes be very annoying when you post about problems on the forum. I assume because it's a beginner-friendly distro, most of the replies you get are also from beginners who can't help you. For example, I was describing a bug that turned all my audio file icons into office document icons, and all I got in response is "go into the file properties and change file association" and "change the theme", even though I clearly described that the problem is not theme-related or association-related. And then I got not actual help from anybody that knows anything. And the Mint subreddit is plagued with screenshots of poorly-replicated Windows imitations, and the most upvoted posts are people saying they've just switched to Mint and how much they love it. While actual support requests go unnoticed.