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Here's how you have a good experience: Use one of the following: - Fedora - Fedora Silverblue - Ubuntu - openSuse Aeon or Micro Leap Next, don't modify an

Here's how you have a good experience: Use one of the following: - Fedora - Fedora Silverblue - Ubuntu - openSuse Aeon or Micro Leap Next, don't modify anything. Use the DE it comes with, never open the terminal, treat it like it's MacOS or Windows and you're your grandma. Then you'll have a good, solid desktop. The problem people have is using hobbyist distros like Mint, some flavour of Arch that's just a buggier Arch, some terrible DE that's riddled with bugs, or using distros that I'd only recommend to actual developers, like Debian or (real) Arch. Or they modify shit because they saw it on some YouTube or blog. Then they break things and don't know how to unbreak them. Lots of distros are poorly funded and buggy. That's a thing. But the big, corporate money distros are ultra stable, especially in their default configuration. Also the thing about games, just look at the Steam deck catalogue... That's not an excuse anymore in the current year.

zahlman 2y ago
Mint being a "hobbyist" distro that provides a worse experience for regular users than Ubuntu is definitely a bespoke take. Nothing against my upstream as a Mint user, but the entire point of this distro is to get the "life's too short to configure stuff" things out of the way. I do do my fair share of "hobbyist" Linux config stuff, but it's stuff I could do on any distro. > Or they modify shit because they saw it on some YouTube or blog. The Youtube content about modifying Linux is overwhelmingly how-tos rather than advocacy. People are watching those videos and following those steps because they already wanted to make the modification.
- dismalaf 2y ago
  Mint is Ubuntu + extra bugs and a less modern experience.
RajT88 2y ago
Now - I'm not super deep in Linux. I get to tinkering with it every few years since College. Early on, you had a lot of weird config stuff and cryptic error messages you had to figure out to get it up and running normally. Then it was OK until something weird happened. The chances of something weird happening go wayyy up if you don't heed your advice: > Next, don't modify anything. Use the DE it comes with, never open the terminal, treat it like it's MacOS or Windows and you're your grandma. Then you'll have a good, solid desktop. But even so - occasionally, weird stuff will happen. Just like it happens on any OS over time, the farther you get from a clean install. Software Entropy, if you will. May god have mercy on your layman's soul if that is the case.
- dismalaf 2y ago
  > But even so - occasionally, weird stuff will happen. Just like it happens on any OS over time, the farther you get from a clean install. Immutable distros solve this. Your base OS is basically always in the state the developers intend (as long as you don't mess with it). Applications are all containerized and if you do dev stuff, that's also in containers.

zahlman 2y ago

Mint being a "hobbyist" distro that provides a worse experience for regular users than Ubuntu is definitely a bespoke take. Nothing against my upstream as a Mint user, but the entire point of this distro is to get the "life's too short to configure stuff" things out of the way. I do do my fair share of "hobbyist" Linux config stuff, but it's stuff I could do on any distro. > Or they modify shit because they saw it on some YouTube or blog. The Youtube content about modifying Linux is overwhelmingly how-tos rather than advocacy. People are watching those videos and following those steps because they already wanted to make the modification.

dismalaf 2y ago
Mint is Ubuntu + extra bugs and a less modern experience.

RajT88 2y ago

Now - I'm not super deep in Linux. I get to tinkering with it every few years since College. Early on, you had a lot of weird config stuff and cryptic error messages you had to figure out to get it up and running normally. Then it was OK until something weird happened. The chances of something weird happening go wayyy up if you don't heed your advice: > Next, don't modify anything. Use the DE it comes with, never open the terminal, treat it like it's MacOS or Windows and you're your grandma. Then you'll have a good, solid desktop. But even so - occasionally, weird stuff will happen. Just like it happens on any OS over time, the farther you get from a clean install. Software Entropy, if you will. May god have mercy on your layman's soul if that is the case.

dismalaf 2y ago
> But even so - occasionally, weird stuff will happen. Just like it happens on any OS over time, the farther you get from a clean install. Immutable distros solve this. Your base OS is basically always in the state the developers intend (as long as you don't mess with it). Applications are all containerized and if you do dev stuff, that's also in containers.