Thread 105960807

>fixes your distrohopping permanently
>gives you a customize-able, lean, extensive desktop
>gives you a functioning fully featured GUI linux OS

It's so good even pewdiepie uses it.

>but I need all my normie apps
It has them all, one click

>>105960807 (OP)
Someone photoshopped black dicks onto my wife's phone pictures. How do I fix this with linux or ai?

>>105960807 (OP)
just dont try to play games on mint xfce

Fuck Mint. Tumbleweed was the one that cured my distrohopping.

>>105960956
>krashes

>>105961029
Never had. On Mint's side, however, the system krashed at random on Cinnamon, and every time I tried to game on XFCE.

>>105961088
nice fud but we all know the opposite is true

>>105960807 (OP)
>It's so good even pewdiepie uses it.

haha he said nword and he moved to Japan???? BROFIST XD

>>105961128
>>>/reddit/

>>105960818
>one click
more like four

>>105960842
Today I tried jagged alliance 3 on mint since I'm not willing to migrate to win11 when win10 dies. I thought it was a meme but it ran better through wine/proton than native.

>>105961138
retvrn newfag

>>105960807 (OP)
Pewdiepie uses arch, lurk moar newfag!!

They just need to fix updating to a new version and it's perfect. Update Manager > Edit > Upgrade who thought of this shit.

>>105962187
he uses both.

Bump for mint.
Lovely system powering my daily life.

>>105961128
nigger

>>105962248
>Uses both
His "latest" engineering video shows off having Arch Linux on both his Laptop and main computer. He started with Mint then switched fully over to arch after he finished ricing his Arch latop. Which makes sense.. You wouldn't want to stay on Mint when you have fully riced out arch.

>>105961029
>brown
OH NONONONO

Uses geolocation geoclue spyware

>>105960807 (OP)
MX is unironically orders of magnitude better for gnubes than this old dog is.

>>105960807 (OP)
>Can’t handle full screen videos in multi monitor setups


To the trash it goes

>>105961166
this isn't true for every windows software. Wine has better support for older windows software than newer windows versions though.
Which is perfect for old boomers like myself who mainly play older games.

>>105960807 (OP)
>gives you a customize-able, lean, extensive desktop
that's only with the xfce spin though. also use LMDE, not regular Mint

>>105965939
>also use LMDE, not regular Mint
What is the direct benefit of doing this currently?

>>105965972
not having a distro based off a fork (Ubuntu), it's based off the original distro (Debian) instead, it cuts an extra step and is likely a better, more stable solution in the long term
I personally wouldn't want anything even remotely Ubuntu or Canonical on my machines, but that's just me

>>105960807 (OP)
Oops, wrong pic!

>>105960807 (OP)
I will switch when it has proper wayland support and [spoiler]GNOME and KDE[/spoiler]

>>105961029
Standard KDE = krashes
Minimal KDE = kino
Not to mention Tumbleweed has the base option, which offers IceWM, another kino experience who looks like Windows 98.

>>105960807 (OP)
mint would always cause a driver issue making one of my monitors go green if it went on standby

switched to arch and everything's much nicer

>>105965884
how is World of Warcraft classic (cata, mop) on Linux? Thinking of switching

Used Linux Mint for 3 days

>can't install logic pro
>can't install final cut
>can't install premiere
>can't install pixelmator
>can't install ableton
>can't install photoshop
>can't install affinity photo
>can't install fl studio
>can't install vegas pro
>can't install alfred
>ui is not consistent
>battery halved (compared to macOS) even with tlp
>boots 3 times slower than macOS
>forced to install outdated software because i'm dependent on the package manager (the only solution to this is compiling from source)
>systemd vs no systemd
>qt vs gtk
>need to manually update the system every day by typing sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
>impossible to use 5ghz mode on my wifi adapter because there are no drivers
>can't install old software (5+ years)
>no way to customize software during installation
>wine doesn't work for small less-known programs
>forced to use some gzip xz tar bullshit
>almost lost data trying to copy some files to a usb key because the progress bar finished too early and it was still copying the files
>pulseaudio vs alsa vs jack vs pipewire
>no automatic troubleshooter
>dead links in app menu are never removed
>installed programs put files in random folders just like in wangblows
>need to use the terminal for anything slightly technical
This is a server OS. It works as a server os because it is flexible, has a powerful terminal and it's libre so it doesn't cost a cent and is mostly immune to viruses and malware.
As a desktop OS however, it's complete trash and the proof is that in 20 years it has completely failed to gain any market share on desktops.
I'm convinced that anyone using Linux as a desktop literally does nothing on their pc except browse the internet, watch anime, maybe play some games on steam and tinker with the OS.

Since when is 'distrohopping' an actual problem? I used to like trying out all possible distro's when I was a wee lad.

>>105967919
It's not really a problem, just a waste of time. I liked doing it too back when I had no responsibilities and could just wank off all day.

>>105960818
>one click
More like, after one click fails to install, or it fails to launch, look up online how to fix flatpak so that it at least doesn't crash when you run it.
Or open up a config file to disable flatpaks altogether and use the distro's package manager. Only to discover it was left in a broken dependency state, and you need to spend the afternoon fumbling your way through AI written bullshit online to fix it on the CLI.

And this is why Linux is never going to be a usable OS. It's too fragmented and clunky by design. It's okay if you like tinkering, and have time to waste. But the moment you need to work on different stuff day after day, you can't afford this. Linux breaks apart sooner or later.

>>105967344
>needs third party peripherals to make it usable
lmao

>>105967781
Nailed it.

>>105968054
And do you think Windows is better? Only when it comes preinstalled on a new PC, because you have to install Windows, activate then debloat it in order to make it work efficiently.

>>105960807 (OP)
>pewdiepie
already moved off of it btw

>>105960807 (OP)
>systemd
ew. call me when LMDE is devuan-based

>>105967781
>Used Linux Mint for 3 days
No, you didn't.
https://desuarchive.org/g/search/text/"can't+install+vegas+pro"+"this+is+a+server+os"/

>>105960818
>whatsi qt

>>105971350
I unironically am the original 2021 poster. AMA

>>105960842
This is what made me switch back to Cinnamon. No matter what I tried I had a choice between compositing (vsync with weird stutters and bad performance in games) and no compositing (abysmal screen tearing in everything that's not a game). I like xfce though.

Linux mint cinnamon and xfce kept crashing on my more modern hardware to the point where I have given fedora xfce a try.
So far no crashes especially when gayming.

>>105968139
Not him but once Windows is set up it just werks. Flatpak is a bandaid on how bad it is to install and integrate software on your system. The closest thing to just installing a program, unzipping it and pinning the .exe to start is downloading an appimage and using Appimage Launcher, which breaks half the programs on your computer and causes them not to launch, so you have to uninstall it every time you use it. I'm sure there's a cryptic workaround for this too, I just haven't found it yet. This is just one of a myriad of issues Linux has. It works, but you're compromising functionality and stability for freedom from Microsoft. Everything is a tradeoff. Still, it's a lot better than it used to be 10 years ago.

>>105960807 (OP)
Linux is very powerful and most importantly, free of corporate influence unlike Microsoft, Google, or even tencent products.

>>105971979
Posted it again award

>>105971865
I don't know what AppImage launcher is. I've always double-clicked on .AppImage files in my file explorer and they've immediately run.

>>105960807 (OP)
I can run cinnamon on Debian if I want, no reason to ever go near mint. If I wanted ubento with cinnamon, I could run that too.
Literally no use case.

>>105960818
Adobe?
Paint.NET? (which clowns GIMP)
Magix Vegas?
Affinity?
Cubase?
Ableton?

>>105973740
>Paint.NET? (which clowns GIMP)
How good is it these days? I didn't like Paint.NET when I tried it in 2012.

>>105960807 (OP)
It's so attractive, but I use tiling window managers.

>>105973740
>>105973787
>Paint.NET
https://www.pinta-project.com/

Installed it on my mother's laptop.
At some point it crashed and refused to boot up, so I had to come, manually run fsck in that minimal initrd shell for it to boot up again.

I don't understand why a supposedly noob-friendly distro doesn't run fsck automatically when it fails to mount the disk.

>>105960807 (OP)
If it shipped with non-meme desktop environments it would actually be fine

>>105975797
>run fsck automatically when it fails to mount the disk
Do any distros do this?

>>105977067
I'm not aware of any, but Universal Blue distros are automating a lot more shit than other "noob friendly" distros like Mint and Zorin. It wouldn't surprise me if they're doing this or if they'd implement this feature if it's brought up in their forums or discord.

Where VRR and HDR?

>>105977887
KDE