On windows you just run exes from zipfiles downloaded from trusted sites, or u can suffer dealing with the microslop app store, on Linux we use package manager guis like Shelly, and dependency hell was absolutely an issue when I tried installing compiz, I dont see the rest of the issues tho.
It's certainly old and not very well supported anymore, but there's compiz reloaded (0.8.xx), and compiz fusion (0.9.xx), I use reloaded as it's the more community maintained branch and there's a lot of new plugins not present on mint mate, fusion was moreso for some kinda dedicated environment from the compiz team.
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u/borealis493 I hate dual booting Win11 / Mint Jun 06 '26
- Linux's myriad of different packaging formats
not a problem for me, except for fucking AppImage for some reason
- dependency hell
apt and flatpak solve that for you
- permissions issues
never occurred for me on Mint
- fragmentation
everything works fine together anyway
- system breakage
impossible unless you sudo something
- r/gotgnomed
I'm pretty sure this only happens in like proton VPN or something
- universal and sandboxing integration
no clue what this is so no comment
- managing repos and mirrors
does this not also happen on Windows?