Hmm… my distro was the second one recommended to me. First was OpenSUSE. I have yet to try that one, but have tested most of the others it recommended. Guess I need to pop OpenSUSE on my Ventoy stick!

I think I still have some Mandrake install discs somewhere!

That looks pretty nice! Next time I play around, I’ll have to try that. I’ve got Cinnamon dialed in pretty well at the moment on my main desktop. And I finally got LXQt, Openbox, and Picom to a state I’m happy with on my turd of a laptop. Can you put the panel on the bottom?

I’ve tried distro hopping occasionally over the last couple years. I keep coming back to Mint. It just fits my tastes and it works.

Yeah, and all the screenshots are just black boxes full of text!

What is linux? I’ve heard of it, but when I search the Microsoft store, but all I see are a bunch of black Notepad looking apps. I’ve heard it is free. Is there a paid one with no ads? How much are the add-ons? How do I play Fortnite if it’s all just text? I’m so confused.

Is what I would say if I weren’t also a Linux user.

It certainly does! That’s exactly what I needed. Thank you, very much! Now I just have to figure out what to use all these buttons for…

Finally, I’m normal. I’m so happy.

I actually just used it this weekend! On my airgapped Win XP machine. College vibes, very nostalgic.

Been on Mint for a bit over a year. Only slight annoyances. My tax guy couldn’t open the password protected .zip files I made. My printer has two trays, can only seem to print from the photo one. And getting the drivers installed for my TP-Link wifi adapter was a little bit of a pain. Other than that, everything has been great. It looks good, runs good, Games good. No issues with my NVidia card.

I need NX. If we could get that working, and if IT let me have Linux on my work PC, I would be so happy. My CAD station runs considerably worse on Win11, and the drivers for my favorite spaceball don’t work on it.

This would be fantastic for at work. I saw in another comment that it’s a one time fee commercial use license. That’s fantastic. How it with merging PDFs with different page sizes and orientations? I would use it for merging drawing packages together, and there’s a mix of like, A0, A1, and A3.

The nice thing about Mint is that there’s no hardware requirements for thigh-highs. You can just wear regular socks.

I woke up one day, and copilot had been installed on my PC overnight. I didn’t like that lack of control. This was, coincidentally, a weekend that my wife, kid, and dog were all gone. Since I knew Win10 only had a year left, and I had the time, I figured it was as good a time as any.

I downloaded Fedora and Kubuntu. Spent a bit of time with each, and went with Kubuntu. For a few days. It had issues waking from sleep, and I had to do some kind of tweaking with every one of my games to get them to work.

I don’t mind tinkering with stuff, but i just don’t have the time to make my computer my hobby. So, I switched to Mint. Everything just works. So, I put it on everything else. I guess the one time I really had to dig into terminal stuff was getting a wifi driver for my living room PC off git. Other than that, super easy.

Now, I’m coming up on a year of Mint. Couldn’t be happier.

You know what, that’s exactly what it was. The keyring wasn’t unlocking. Whatever i did last time was getting the apps individually to bypass the keyring or something, but fixing the keyring issue solved the problem and hopefully will prevent future problems. Thank you!!

Oh man, i had no idea. Thank you, I’ll check that out!

I remember there being a reason why I switched. Like, there were extensions that chrome has that Firefox didn’t, or some specific drm didn’t like Firefox, or Chrome just ran better on my low-end hardware. Im not sure. But the adblock war has gotten me to switch back to Firefox.

Hah, I’ve totally done that. I’m thinking about doing it again, because it worked way better than my desktops built-in wifi adapter that has no external antenna.

Right? I’ll talk about my salary all you want. I think it’s great to know where you stand against others when negotiating for a new job or a raise. Especially since unions aren’t really a thing in my profession.

Don’t talk about my penis. If I want you to know, you’ll know.

I don’t have time to mess around with Arch or customizing things. I tried a couple live boots and went with Mint. Spent 2 hours picking a theme, wallpaper, and menu icon. Boom, done.