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Did we kill Linux's killer feature?
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I love and use Fedora but I still think Mints update manager is the best GUI implementation I ever used for updating, it has all the essentials, is easy to use and looks nice.
I have never used mint, so I dont know.
One of the thing that drived me from Ubuntu to Fedora is that Ubuntu has 3 different UI for system, apt, and snap/flatpak update. It feels really segmented.
I personally prefer Gnome experience more than any other DE (including windows and macOS). But mint only include Gnome version on Ubuntu LTS, so it is a bit dated. But no doubt that mint is extremely user friendly.
I prefer vanilla Gnome on Fedora too but Mint dose some things really well. Their update manager is nice but that's a Debian tool, their file manager (Nemo) on the other hand is something I still use, I just prefer it to Nautilus.
I like that the Mint UI show you that you are in sudo in a graphical app. It is really neat.
IIRC, if you do a file operation in Nemo that require sudo, then the file manager can directly ask you the password and lift itself to sudo, without needing to go into terminal. It is also pretty convenient.