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    Prove youre an OG, State your distro couz (lemmy.ca)
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    [–] massacre@lemmy.world 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    F-that! Take pride... Mint is ridiculously good. Well managed, stable, "just works" and yet has all the capabilities you want, including auto-running near the edge for current kernels (backed down to stable) without doing jack. You can run at the bleeding edge if you want to manage it yourself.

    And for any haters - here's my take: I've been working with Unix for 30+ years, I installed Slackware off of floppies when 16MB of RAM was god-like. I have built, compiled and managed nearly every distro at some point certainly the upstream giants. I've been there for the birth of all of them. I've also professionally worked on AIX, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX. Yes there's a lot of fun in maintaining and running things to your satisfaction, but when you hit a certain inflection point of balancing your real life and maintaining distros across multiple machines and decide "This is the way" - Mint just fits the bill on so many levels.

    Mint is the bomb and I'm done pretending. Fight me (not you, OP, you're cool)

    [–] mihnt@lemmy.ca 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    20+ year Linux user here. Fuck it, I ain't got time to manage dumb shit. Install and go, please.

    Though I am curious about LMDE.

    [–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    LMDE - the emergency escape hatch for mint. gotta love the forethought.

    [–] quantumantics@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

    It's my daily driver; the benefits of mint with the stability of a Debian base.

    [–] clubb@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

    LMDE is the same, just debian. You can't really tell the difference.

    [–] sundray@lemmus.org 5 points 9 months ago

    I've got to admit, I do love Mint. I've thought about hopping, but I've never had a serious problem with Mint (that wasn't my own fault) so I've never really had the motivation.

    [–] Synth@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

    I love how wholesale that got ^^;; I tell all my friends who're switching basically the same thing. Linux is Linux and as long as works for you, it's well maintained, and does what you need it to then don't fix that's not broken (unless you're distro hopping then let the chaos ensue)