Magnolia_@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-26 months 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.caexternal-linkmessage-square348fedilinkarrow-up1391arrow-down1112
arrow-up1279arrow-down1external-linkPeople 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-26 months agomessage-square348fedilink
minus-squareaccideath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down1·6 months 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-up5·6 months 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.