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Mint is so much more usable than the last time I tried and I'm in love (piefed.world)

submitted 6 days ago by toomanypancakes@piefed.world to c/linux@lemmy.world

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My first foray into Linux was something like twenty years ago, I ran Linux Mint briefly and happily, but I screwed something up trying to get flash videos to have sound and kind of gave up and went back to windows.

Flash forward, I got my desktop and my husband's laptop set up with Mint now, and I can't believe how easy it was. Everything has been working excellently, and the laptop is getting more attention than its had in years. The software manager is amazing, I got set up with steam and my daw (reaper) in no time. So far I haven't run into anything I've tried to do that I couldn't do with minimal elbow grease.

Thanks for being so passionate about Linux gang, I don't know that I would have converted nearly so quickly if I wasn't exposed to it here. Y'all are cool as hell.

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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 37 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Mint "just works" in a way a lot of other distros don't. The majority of Linux enthusiasts and users enjoy tinkering, and that's fine -- but people who want their stuff to "just work", generally don't like Linux because it expects you, the user, to fuck with it until it works. Mint doesn't, and I adore it for this reason. You have any idea how floored I was the first time I went to print something and it just worked with my network printer, no bullshit involved? Or how my jaw hit the floor when installing a graphics driver was a two click install process, and nothing went wrong?

Yeah, Mint is rad as fuck.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 5 points 5 days ago

Mint worked better with my printer than windows every did right out of the box.