I've been using Linux on and off since 1992 and Slackware (0.93) kernel) and I don't want to have to write scrips any more. I love Mint because it just works.
@@feelalivemusix7536 You illustrate the point: We have choices and since you found one that suits you, all is good. Should mine be different, no big deal - choices imply differences.
The mint devs are some of the most successful with getting things to just work and they have a tendency to almost always make the right decisions regarding what they include in the distro. a lot of kudos to them.
him showing his super secure password, then revealing that this whole time that wasn't actually his password, were two plot twists in rapid succession that my heart wasn't ready for
The best thing about Linux Mint is that it is stable, simple, and trims the time you need to get to just using the desktop. And customizing the desktop is super easy, just choose from the selection or copy and paste the customized files for something personal.
No other distro, not even a single one, is as user friendly (while also being polished) as Linux Mint. Many distros claim to be beginner friendly but they get something wrong or ain't as Polished as LM in my opinion.
I find Mint to always be my go-to desktop OS. I usually mess around with Arch or Void (mostly Void) if I feel like tinkering, but theres so many great things about Mint that just work and make it such a great desktop experience that you can sit down and just do work on, without having to sweat over updates, packages, stability, etc. Best of all, based on Debian.
@@user-unknown873 linux..i have a new laptop which had windows 10 installed and it was becoming slow...mint was exhibiting the same...very slow boot times.
@@doctorsocrates4413 It's laptop that is slow, not Linux. I have used Windows up to 2020, after that I have switched to Linux, and the boot time is pretty decent.
Discord isn't such a big program, it's just that Flatpak needs to download and install several runtimes on a fresh system. First flatpaks you install will always be huge because of that, but later as you will already have many runtimes, flatpaks won't install so much.
Or you just don't treat Linux like "Pick n Mix Sweeties" ("I want that package from that distro but this package from this distro" etc. etc.) and choose a distro, learn its native package manager, and install runtimes just once to avoid even more unnecessary bloat. You're welcome, you can thank me later.
@@aviationrambler What you do and do not bet on is of zero interest to me, sonny. You know nothing about me, therefore stop playing the "amateur Internet psychologist" on me, do try to keep up and stay on topic. I believe we were talking about computers, not me. Now, please continue on the topic. PS. I assume that's where you get the "rambler" part of your pseudonym from - i.e. "rambling on" about complete b*ll*cks.
@davi.a.carneiro Thank you, I do try my best. Sonny, Linux is about "effort in = reward out". If you can't be bothered to sit down and learn it properly then you're just a little Linux parasite feeding off of someone else to always give you what you need, rather than building it yourself in a "lean and mean" manner. You can be a parasite, that's your choice - but don't then complain when someone else doesn't build you a Linux that meets your standards.
When friends ask me what distribution to use (yes, people sometimes get really disgusted with Windows, who'd have thunk?) I always show them Linux Mint. And I'm always happy to help them install it and be their tech support! I've had three calls so far, and I've been recommending other distros before. Three calls... I can live with that :-D
I did that LMDE / Cinnamon thing to a friend on a 32-bit Lenovo laptop I found for him. Two days later his comment was "I can't believe how easy it is to use!" That's a real testament to the developers who put Mint together. World class people those are.
After running Mint 21.1 and more recently 21.2 for a couple months I noticed something I didn't expect. There are almost always daily updates. The majority were Nvidia drivers, Flatpaks and Flatpak's Nvidia drivers. I noticed 4 or more kernel updates as well in that time frame. Desktop Linux is just that busy these days I guess.
@@driden1987 system76 (company behind pop os) developers haven't said a date because they said they will release when it's ready,. Most probably they will release it small after ubuntu releases 24.04 so in a year from now, but it depends on the devs being able to have a ready product by then. At the moment they barely have an alpha version, though. And they still have to implement most of the basic stuff a desktop environment needs, so they may take a little longer to release it. They post monthly a blog about their updates on their site if you are interested
@@driden1987early 2024, they are posting monthly blogs in their site, and giving sneakpeaks, and it's looks really promising, it looks like very modern gnome
You should have mentioned the interesting feature of Mint, the System Report. The icon is down there beside the update manager, and it had already notifications for you. It's a great console that shows you anything missing on your system, or any enhancements that can be done.
The only snapshots I like are the ones garuda comes with. it auto snapshots before and after any changes to the system, and every snapshot it takes are bootable from the grub menu, so if you break your machine in a way it wont boot, you can still roll it back easily. I cant figure out how to set that up in arch though
I just upgraded from 21.whatever to 21.2 and I don't see any difference but that's good, isn't it. Nothing broke. I love Mint. I run it on an old notebook, and it runs like a champ. Microsoft can keep their forced upgrades and future subscriptions. I'm running the xfce desktop, because I want the go, not the show, just old familiar for me. Forget the dazzle.
I wish Linux Mint would stop shipping versions with other desktop environments and just put their focus entirely on cinnamon. Cut down on the confusion, improve branding, and help with development focus.
My mind was blown when I thought DT revealed the strong and complicated password! 🤯😂 - great video as always, another solid release from the Mint team!
@@francoissevestre3893 once a distro literally said you can't use a pw same a s the username which low key leaked that pw. Im not sure but as far as I can remember, it was deepin
Mint and Zorin are the go to for new users than want something simple and familiar. I installed Mint on my mom's 10 year old Laptop. Can't wait for Zorin 17
9:10 if I understood you right, what you're looking for is the left arrow button near the top left of the system settings window. That'll take you back to the main page. 10:40 I am so relieved. My first thought at hearing WC was "water closet", maybe a utility for flushing files down off your system.
it's really hard, especially majority of their userbase install Ubuntu based distro not debian one, and many app and functions only have ubuntu version too change to debian now will cause huge controversy.
i think the first app you install via flatpak includes stuff required by flatpak which is why its such a large overall download whereas succeeding flatpak installs arent. i might be wrong though
"It'sSomethingCompletlyDifferentYoudNeverGuessIt" - I can't believe you actually revealed your password in the video! You're slipping Derek, better change it.
I looked at it install on hard drive no problems nice look and feel I am thinking maybe they better that Windows 11 Two monitors no problem Wi-Fi no problem Ubuntu I really don't know if I like or not good program But Mint impress me... Kali good writing sold like rock ..
I wanted to use Linux on daily basis. I tried mint and Ubuntu and elementary, and every one of them was ugly. Linux ux is stuck in 2005. I reluctantly switched back to macos. Linux is extremely ugly and there is no way past it.
I wanted to have mint and win 11 both but I messed up 😁 and now I only have mint I'm not sad I want something new I need updates I didn't had wifi typing this from phone
Hi DT I did use Windows 11 but I feel now it's such a mess and they keep on changing the goal posts of what equipment you can use I've decided enough as enough and have come home Linux .I used to use manjaro but now I am going to be using Linux mint.
I've tried installing this 3 times now and each time it was done installing it said... you are in fallback mode. This is from the ISO on the official site.
Can someone help me? I dont why my system not booting on my bootable device. I tried all the possible choices to primary boot on my bios and no one works. I want to try linux pls help
Hey I updated to 21.2 last night and nothing looks like this, in fact it looks the same. I am on an older kernel of 5.15, do I need up upgrade that? System settings says I am on 21.2 cinnamon. Any ideas? Thank you for the quality content!
I'm new to LInux. I wanted to ask... with windows it doesn't really matter if you shut it down right at night. You often just flip the laptop shut. Its even encouraged by many. Is that the same with Linux or not? Does it matter if Linux is shut down 'properly' instead of just shutting the laptop lid? And also a few years ago Windows kicked everyone with XP operating systems off. Then they were doing a similar thing with the VIsta OS users. It was basically forcing everyone to buy new stuff for nothing. Will having Linux on your system still have that same risk of being kicked off? Or is this likely to happen still with Linux OSes? Thanks.
Linux Mint has various options for you to choose from in regards to what happens when you shut your laptop lid down like hybernate/snooze etc. Being open source, you are never forced to upgrade the current os and being a long term version, you won't have to until 2027. That's way long enough for you to decide about updates/upgrades. Good luck with Linux Mint
Linux basically doesn`t give you any support besides whaat others have to offer. The others, being hardware manufacturers have already declaired Linux desktop to be as dead as a doornail.
Why is there a background image of the board game "Santorini" in your thumbnail (white plastic buildings with blue domed roofs) and what is the connection of that game to Linux Mint?
I thought mint will move to Wayland when Ubuntu goes Wayland, since it is totally based on ubuntu but that did not happen. Even Debian 12 is now Wayland.
Hi @DistroTube. I have a constructive suggestion, that hopefully reaches you. How about instead of showing us the output of the command ~$ uname -r you give us the output of the more verbose command ~$ uname -a that shows if the particular kernel supports realtime preemption. For example, the output of ~$ uname -a on my current OS, returned the following: $ uname -a Linux bangelov 6.1.39-1-lts #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:58:31 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I'm very pleased with Linux Mint, it just work out of the box and its so user-friendly. I like that as a gui user, still I have the terminal to do all my work on servers and to make code
That's the biggest flaw on Mint... everything works nicely... lol... I used Mint for about 10yrs and left because of KDE (running Kubuntu now)... Mint should have kept a KDE version, it is a better DE than Cinnamon, it is lighter(not much) and faster, and, I prefer the Qt apps of KDE... Anyway... Mint is an AWESOME distro... if it had a KDE version, it would be my choice...
and the upgrade was smooth, nice. one thing about dark theme, the window border should invert, when programs are overlapping it is difficult to find the right handle.
I installed it on a VM the other day. Not bad. I noticed its using gcc 11 and Kernel 5.15. While Debian 12 is using gcc 12 and kernel 6.x. I am on a toss up of using this and Debian 12. Really nice release. I haven't noticed any issues. Even managed to get gcc 7,8,9,10 and oracle 19.3 database installed on it for some developing I am doing. Thanks for review!
Yeah it's still based on the latest Ubuntu LTS, which came out more than a year ago. The Debian 12 based version, LMDE 6 will probably release in a few months, LMDE 5 released 7 months after the release of Debian 11.
So for cross-platform C++ development, compiling as C++11 or later, this is a very neat distro, and I don't mind them being a little slow compared to bleeding edge Debian 12. But I object to the idea of Mint or Debian 12 being radical different compared to any other Linux Desktop. It's USP was/is bringing the right package installer at the right time. And for native development, or database development, I wouldn't recommend installing a full linux desktop like Mint, or any other traditional full blown distro desktop with huge requirements. Smaller distro like 4mLinux, Q4OS, Slax seems well positioned and easy maintainable. And you even have some with a non-Gnome Debian focus, ie. carrying quite a patchset for a longer period, similar to the minimalist xfce desktop. But there is more needed than just great technology. VCC as well as CDi and mini disks also sort of died while being superior. It's about the ecosystem.
I had Linux Mint 19, 19.1, 20, 20.3 BUT... when loaded Mint 21.2, getting close to timeshift my 1st backup, I've noticed that timeshift, synaptics, system update manager, and Software manager... >>> ALL of them stopped working!!!
Hey DT , can you help me find software that for making monthly employee Plan, roster or whatever it's called in English. You know writing all the shifts, sick days vacation, over hours , something that is Linux compatible.
Mint actually has both Pulseaudio and Pipewire installed by default now. DT is incorrect though in that the audio server in use is Pulseaudio still. Pipewire is used for additional services, possibly a requirement of the Bluetooth change that occurred in either 21.0 or 21.1.
