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Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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I've been having a big think over Linux distros. See, I've been looking back at my still-new Linux experience of nine months, and wondering how my own journey can help other people get started with FOSS operating systems. Whenever the topic of a Windows refugee-friendly OS came up, I would recommend Linux Mint because, first, it's the one everyone says, and second, it was the Linux OS that I started with, fresh off Windows.

I always follow that up with a comment about how you don't have to stick with Linux Mint if you don't want to. You can do what I did, which is to dip your toe into the Linux distro water and find something that suits you better. But if I'm setting up Linux Mint as "my first Linux distro," why not just skip the middleman and get right into the distros that have a bit more meat on them?

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[–] epicshepich@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, that's a fair take. I've only been frustrated once by the release schedule, and that's because I was stuck on a very buggy version of podman, which I rely fairly heavily on for development. That said, I think the only games I've played on my Mint machine are Factorio (which ran fine) and Wizard101 (which ran like shit). Nobara has definitely been a better experience for gaming, but it hasn't been quite as user-friendly.

Also, I thought most of the hate that Ubuntu gets is because of sketchy behaviour on Canonical's part...