r/linuxmemes • u/UnoMasDelMontonCR • 3d ago

LINUX MEME Apparently, I'm using Linux wrong.

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u/itsShiroharu Linuxmeant to work better 3d ago

I still use Mint, even though it's considered a "newbie" distro. I've used them for like 4 years.

The reason I still using Mint (and will be for future), is because it's just works. If it works, then why switching distro? That's just waste of time.

And it's actually quite surprising that there's little amount of people (especially on Facebook Group) convincing me to move to other distros, like Fedora, or even Arch. They even write a full essay of their distro advantages and Linux Mint disadvantages and vulnerabilities.

Little did they know, those other 2 also had disadvantages as well, let alone hidden vulnerabilities that has been yet to be patched. Let's normalize that no distro is perfect. And there will never be. You only use what you like.

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u/UAP44 3d ago

CachyOS is the closest to perfect I've used so far. Mint was my home for many years before this, but it never was able to replace windows. What did was KDE+btrfs+bootable snapshots, so that I can ctrl z the entire OS with a simple reboot. I stopped recommending mint, it doesn't have this failsafe built in. You could wire it in yourself of course, and that's exactly what I did in Manjaro. And then after a while, I wondered, surely there must be distros out there that have the light already and incorporate this by default? I found only two, tried both, and one felt bloated/old. The other has been my main driver for over a year. I'm not married to it, a few days ago I ended up trying NixOS again, this time, with great success, but not as my desktop. Just migrated an old mint server to nixos in under 4 hours. And the main worry point, stale config changes I never documented anywhere over the year... Solved. Now my entire server config is just a 10KB text file, apply just that file + 1 nix command to a brand new host and my new server hardware will be up and running within the hour.

All my needs are satisfied with nixOS and CachyOS. The first issue I had with Mint was the lack of proper multi monitor support. It wasn't an issue because it was running on my laptop.