Thread 106295238

When building a new computer, the operating system is one of the most important decisions. For a home built computer, there is usually just one option, microsoft windows. But, what was once considered a weird, obtuse(?) OS in the past is now considered to be a passable option, loonix. Loonix is a free operating system, and there are many loonix flavors(?). Some of the most popular options are ubunutu, archloonix, and gentoo, each having their own reputation, such as archloonix as best for battlestation thread and gentoo as best for autism. One loonix recommended as better than ubunutu is loonixmint.

>What is loonixmint

Loonixmint is a free operating system that is not windows and is recommended to be better than ubunutu. Loonixmint is said to have been started in 2006 by some leguy, and I think I remember that loonixmint was an operating system from england. You can download it from their website and put it on a flash drive and install it pretty easily.

>Installing loonixmint

You can download loonixmint from the website and put it on a flash drive and install it pretty easily. I didn't take any screenshots, and I don't remember exactly how many clicks it takes or what you have to type in.

>Using loonixmint

Many loonix users just know the names of the programs they want to use, and they quickly install them from the command line using the included package manager. If you don't know, you can look for the package manager program in the start menu, and browse the options that are there. Sometimes, there are updates that happen after the version you downloaded and installed was made and before the next downloadable version is posted on the loonix website.

In my case, there were some updates recommended, so I just said yes and allowed that. Unfortunately for me, the update process never completed, and when I restarted the new computer, it was completely non-functional.

>Conclusion

In the end, I bought a new motherboard, keeping all the other components, in order to start the computer, and I decided not to use loonixmint.

I'm not a fan of Mint but if you're too retarded to use fucking Mint, the easy distro, it's unironically over for you. Troonix out.

I love it, but I did need to fiddle with it more than I expect most normie users to be comfortable with, to set it up just how I like it. It's certainly not a straight swap for Windows by any means, yet. Don't let that put you off though, if you have the spare time and are someone who doesn't mind looking some shit up.

Better luck next time, op.

>>106295275
>bought a new motherboard

Some people might be concerned about gentoo is best for autism, so if I could, I would possibly edit to say either gentoo best for watching the complier go, gentoo best for not reading the code and watching the compiler go, gentoo best for reading all the code watching the compiler go and getting a rootkit anyways

>>106295811
New(used) motherboard

If it happened this year, I might have looked into seeing if an spi flash of the bios again with an arduino or something could do it, don't know why that would be the problem for os update, but it's a possibility

Terrible, buggy, and outdated. Install literally anything else, especially if you have any new hardware that the nutjob antisemite maintaining mint is dragging their feet for months or even years to properly support.

>>106295238 (OP)
>is recommended to be better than ubunutu
This is mostly a meme because people hate snaps and Mint replaces them with flatpak by default. The update cycle is slow and if you have newer hardware you're more likely to run into bugs with it. In general upstream distros are better for regular desktop use.

>>106296423
Mint doesn't replace them with flatpack, they just don't use them.