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I've been on MacOS since 5 (mac classic). I went to Win 2000 and XP for a while but came back at 10.3. On average every 2 years I'd pick up a few distros of L
by proverbialbunny 7y ago
I've been on MacOS since 5 (mac classic). I went to Win 2000 and XP for a while but came back at 10.3.
On average every 2 years I'd pick up a few distros of Linux, play with it, then drop it and go back to OS X. This continued until recently. This last year I've been on Linux for the first time. Specifically, Linux Mint.
OS X hasn't been going in a direction I strongly care for (10.6 was my favorite, as well as Windows 2000). I'm a power user who just wants things to work. I don't need all the bells and whistles. I want a low maintenance experience without bugs, that just works. Right now Linux Mint is that on my hardware.
The only modification I've done to the system is using the graphics card for v-sync instead of the cpu. Outside of that, I'm on a 4k monitor that works at 60fps. I've not had a single crash or noticeable bug since installing (except a bug in Firefox). I haven't had to go deep in the terminal, but I have built custom versions of software. eg, the version of cmake on the OS is older than the version needed to build cuda projects that use cmake.
It's a minimum no bells and whistles it just works experience. So I'm happy. Is it for everyone? No. Are more every day desktop users going to be picking up Linux in the near future? Probably. Video game support has gotten so good on Linux that people who play video games have been slowly jumping ship. I've been surprised.
Though, if they break anything, I'll go back to OSX.
- lzol 7y agoMint is such a wonderful distro for people who want to use Linux but don't want to mess with things. I'm glad you've been enjoying it so far. Canonical really dropped the ball with how great a no-config, no-bullshit distro can be. Ubuntu felt like it was on this path 10 years ago before they started adding all the unnecessary bullshit. I'm glad Mint is the fork that picked up the slack.
- rochak 7y agoI agree. Mint has been my daily driver ever since Ubuntu dropped the ball.
- proverbialbunny 7y ago>I'm glad you've been enjoying it so far. Thanks for the kind words. ^_^ I might be unusual, but I never cared for Ubuntu, even when everyone was raving about it. I like to minimize whitespace. While my monitor is decently sized, too many distros have a horizontal bar on the top and the bottom of the screen. It feels like wasted space. Mint doesn't do that, and it's professional looking. It's dark theme looks and feels great too.