ah yes finally! can we start saying "I use Mint btw"?
Because I use Mint, btw.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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I use Mint, btw. Really.
Hell yes! Scream it from rooftops with your menthol laced breath. The celestial calendar fortold that 2025 would truly be the year of the linux β’ the time is now!
It will be glorious! I have to give lemmy and Valve a lot of credit for this. Made the move half a year ago and honestly it has been such a fresh breath of (minty) air.
Just saw a big article on a major local news paper about support for Windows 10 ending soon and they mentioned linux mint as an alternative for most people who simply only use their browser on a PC since that is what a big portion of people actully do on a PC.
..... Glory you say?
Yes Gowron! Finally!
Glory to you....and your distro.
Based newspaper
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I use Tumbleweed btw, therefore, I am in fact superior to you in every way.
Tumbleweed bros for the win
I'd answer you with a copypasta if I could just remember which one was the one with arch superiority but replace everything with mint :(
LMDE ftw
Same! I'm main stream. I need to crawl under a rock and find an obscure distro to fit in.
I do it too! Mint gang!
As an EndeavourOS user I say yes. Make it like a fun custom name tag!
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we need that bell curve meme with mint at both ends
I started my bellcurve with Redhat in the 90s, Arch in the teens and I'm back at Redhat (Fedora).
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Arch in the middle.
Nope. Gentoo in the middle
as an ~amd64 user this is accurate.
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That's illegal! Only us big brain Arch users are allowed to say BTW! /s
In all seriousness, I'm just glad Linux is in such a good place nowadays and I was able to switch to it full time for the past few years. Much easier to get into than my first attempt in college a over decade ago.
I use BTW, BTW
i too use Big Thinking Walrus, BTW
Where's the iso link for BTW
here it is, the BTW download file:
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/5cc02178-e0aa-4dc3-9fb8-350dc0547f50.jpeg
Linux Mint, my beloved β€οΈ
Bring Me The Horizon: "CAN YOU HEAR THE SILENCE?"
Me, with mild-to-moderate tinnitus: boy I sure wish I couldn't
I'm a noob running PopOS on a 16 year old pc with a gtx1060 3gb and it can play cyberpunk.
popos is the one thats amazing for nvidia card havers right?
Believe so yes.
ight thx
I use Mint DE btw. :-)
Whoa. Seeing it written that way, and without the L(inux) in front, had me misreading it as "Mint Desktop Environment" and not "Linux Mint Debian Edition". Super weird, especially since I've been on LMDE since v4.
LMDE gang ( β βΏβ )
i tried mint on an old laptop for a little while and it was nice. i'm thinking of adopting linux for daily-driving when windows 10 stops being supported entirely. But i'm considering going with Bazzite when that time comes, maybe...
Why not make the move now while you have win10 to fall back on?
Obligatory: Mint was the best balanced distro I foind.
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And, for apparently the first time, I wonder. Does Linux Mint refer to the plant/ingredient, connecting obviously with Cinnamon desktop, the green theme, and inviting variations called Linux Peppermint and Linux Spearmint? Or does it originate from being Linux, in Mint condition?
Perhaps, we can all pretend it's the second one, and instead of *I use Mint, btw," our catchphrase can be, "I mint Linux, btw."
Your comment made me curious and I tried looking for an answer. I found this forum post from 2008 asking basically the same thing. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=17953
The founder Clem answered:
Why the name MINT??
Long story... I was writing articles/tutorials for linuxforums.org for a while and I eventually decided to publish them myself, so I needed a .com and I thought of a name. Mint is cold, it's short, it's fresh, it's easy to type and to remember and in English it even means "cool", "good condition", "perfect" etc... I also liked the way Linux was associated with the poles, the penguins, the ice.. the way a pristine kernel was called "vanilla"... and so Mint was kind of close to all of that. Great name, no particular meaning... just a series of nice subjective associations I guess.
Clem do you like Mint?
It's my favorite non-alcoholic drink. If you ever go to Paris on a sunny day do order a "Diabolo Menthe" :wink: I also love the smell of Mint and the flavor (especially with lamb)
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Debian based all the way through.
But my biggest problem still persists with choosing the right distro, which has the best balanced option when considering these features?:
- out of box experience
- cutting edge gpu drivers
- stability
- beeing able to serve as headless server os
Linux Mint Debian Edition for GUI, Debian headless...
Not even Joking - Mint can do it. Override the default kernel to 6.8 (via GUI in Update Manager). I've been running Satisfactory on Mint with 6.8 at 4K without issue for months for example). Daily driver with rock solid uptime pedigree. Cinnamon is very comfortable and familiar and yet still very configurable if you like. I like some Mac OS niceties, so I switched mine to feel a bit more like it and use Albert for a quick launcher.
I also use it on several headless servers. Though I leave the graphics running in case I want to KVM on those machines, but never really have to... SSH if need be.
I've solidified and have been on Mint for like 7 years now? I just got tired of distro hopping and the team running the show does a fantastic job. Probably will switch to Debian (LMDE) - going to experiment with it soon.
Since I switched a few weeks ago I understand to urge to tell everyone about it even if they don't want to hear.
Been on nothing but Linux since the 90s when OS/2 died
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