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    [–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I agree, everyone should use green Ubuntu

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago
    [–] Diplomjodler3 19 points 5 months ago

    Green Ubuntu, best Ubuntu!

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Nah blue Ubuntu is way cooler

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Ubuntu? never heard of her. also who seriously uses Ubuntu cinnamon.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Gonna guess people who missed the memo about Mint until well after they installed Ubuntu. They haven't had the time or energy to switch distros yet, but did manage the time and/or energy to install Cinnamon.

    Maybe a couple of others who have unknown reasons for avoiding Mint. No idea what those reasons are, but there's always someone with a different take.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    You never get to that problem if all your data is in your debian server 🤓 like that you can hop around distros on your main, like a rabbit 🐇 💨

    [–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The cutout looks like Saddam Hussein.

    [–] extant 5 points 5 months ago

    That's the secret to powering Linux mint.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

    Yeah I saw the thumbnail and thought exactly this lol 🤦‍♂️

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

    Installed Mint last week after a ~10 year hiatus from using Linux (other than Debian on RPi)

    I was surprised at how everything just works, even my network HP all-in-one worked after a simple "search for printer" and it also added it as a scanner without any input from me. In windows I had to install HPsmart software, login every few days for some reason and then some days it just refuses to work altogether

    I also connected it to my home theater and I was able to set up 5.1 sound without any additional installations. In windows it took me several hours to fix this and sometimes the link between the laptop and the HT would be cut for some reason in the middle of a movie and I had to restart everything

    [–] RustyNova 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    NGL, most of them fit perfectly, unlike arch

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

    I know a lot of noobs installing random .deb on their devian based distros not knowing how to add sources to apt (only those are added where the app developer has command by command tutorial), well to say it shortly, a mess. With arch there is just yay and you find everything 🤷🏻‍♀️

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Are you all trying to be extra silly with these obviously unreasonable charts??

    People come here for actual advice, they don't yet understand the jokes.
    So for the love of penguin can please someone make a serious version of the meme (ie where all suggestions are for Hanna Montana Linux)?

    Oh, I found it - posting as a PSA:

    [–] Moshpirit 9 points 5 months ago

    Needs more jpg

    [–] Ibaudia 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I have 2 monitors, one 144hz and one 75hz. I can't use anything that only has X for that reason :/

    [–] stuner 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Is that generally an issue on Linux Mint / Cinnamon X11? I have a 144 Hz and a 70 Hz monitor and they seem to work fine....

    [–] Ibaudia 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    As far as I know, unless Mint has patched something very recently, that 144hz monitor is throttled to 70 right now. You still probably have better frame times, which matters, but is obviously not the same as a higher refresh rate.

    It's just a fundamental flaw in X11's design that can't be fixed as far as I know.

    [–] stuner 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    I'm pretty sure that my desktop is drawn at 144 Hz (on the primary display) and xrandr also tells me that that's the active mode. 🤷‍♂️

    Edit: This is with Nvidia (proprietary drivers) and VRR monitors.

    [–] Ibaudia 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    If they somehow managed to patch it then that's awesome, what does this say? I remember having a similar thing where it said one refresh rate but actually drew another.

    www.testufo.com/framerates#count=3&background=stars&pps=960

    [–] stuner 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    It says "UNSUPPORTED: VSYNC is not available on the Linux platform." and runs at a stuttery 133 fps. This test shows 144 Hz: https://fpstest.org/refresh-rate-test/ The Nvidia settings app shows 144 Hz + VRR are active and I can see that the cursor is rendered at >70 fps.

    [–] Ibaudia 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Then I'll have to dual-boot and see if I can get it to work with my GPU :D

    [–] stuner 2 points 5 months ago

    Good luck :)

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

    Mint's a great OS.

    I'm really just not an apt guy though, and Cinnamon has always been a little plain for me.

    [–] mapleseedfall 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    I wish I could do android emulation on it tho.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
    [–] mapleseedfall 1 points 3 months ago

    doest mint run on x11 or something and not wayland? I believe waydroid only run on wayland

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Mint is OK for beginners, but definetly not for me, old ass pakages due to the Ubuntu LTS base, and the cinnamon desktop just make it unusable for me (Nothing against cinamon but I am a KDE addict)

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Mint is OK for beginners, but definetly not for me, old ass pakages due to the Ubuntu LTS base

    What does that say about me, a guy who's been using Linux since 2001 and uses Debian Stable? At a certain point you get sick and tired of dealing with bleeding edge bugs and just want a reliable, generic, standardized system you can depend on every day.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Do you know the meme with the knucklehead on the left at the bottom of the bell-curve, the smashed brain moron at the top, and the sage at the right?

    With this comment you are very close to coming off as the smashed brain moron at the top of the curve.

    Everyone has preferences, but your preferences do not map to you being superior in any way. And just as importantly - you are also a beginner to some people. It would serve you well to remember that.

    -Signed, the guy who uses the one true DE.


    XFCE!


    /s

    [–] dustyData 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

    Lol. Dig it!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I am not saying thst I am better than anyone, didn't mean it like that. I am just saying the demographic "beginners" like it a lot but it personaşly is npt for me

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    Fair enough.