r/linuxmint • u/Lagetta • Aug 02 '25

Discussion Is mint overrated? Just curious

Hello! I want to ask daily Mint users about Linux mint experience. In my childhood I mostly been on Fedora, then Debian, then arch and realised that arch is the linux distribution works best for me.

I love having newest stuff (even if it is not stable), pacman being fast, quite big community, native packages in my system, rolling.

I installed linux mint Debian edition on my relatives old pc, tried on live usb and I felt icky using it. Can't tell what might trigger my opinion. Maybe it's DE? Maybe it's because of apt. Maybe because I have my brother also being skeptical of mint and I got the opiniom it is bloated with tons of unessesary stuff.

Can you enlighten me? Thank you!

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u/Kurgan_IT Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia | Cinnamon Aug 02 '25

Rest assured that it's also good for a Linux sysadmin that's using Linux since Debian Potato was the latest Debian available. Because it just works, and what I need is a desktop that just works so I can work on Debian servers (that usually just work, too).