Programmer by day, burnt out by night.

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  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.ml•What is/was your distrohopping journey?
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    19 days ago

    Windows 2000

    Windows Vista Windows 8

    Trying every Linux distro under the sun for a little while in VirtualBox

    Linux Mint + Windows 8 later 10 dual boot due to software required by school

    Trying some Arch based systems in VirtualBox

    My owm minimal Arch i3 setup + Windows 10 dual boot due to software required by school

    Issues with my own setup, Manjaro + W10

    Manjaro is weird, EndeavourOS + W10 (only for a short while)

    Linux Mint just works (+W10, until I could fully use my own software, now it’s just Mint for several years)

    I’m tinkering around with NixOS in QEMU from time to time, not everything “just works” but it’s okay

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.ml•I am happy for the Linux Mint team
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    21 days ago

    They always make sure to be on the latest version of a supported LTS kernel. It’s not old or outdated, it prefers a tried and tested, more stable kernel, over the newest but possibly not well supported kernel.

    That said, you can simply switch kernels, even from mintupdate’s GUI. This is what I did for my recent AMD graphics card.

    Also, they offer up-to-date drivers from the same channels Debian/Ubuntu does, and even make proprietary Nvidea drivers much easier than the Debian or Ubuntu they’re based on. So any driver issues in Mint are going to be worse in those two. Maybe you’re comparing it with Arch or Fedora, which are different experiences altogether.

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux really has come a long way
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    24 days ago

    I experienced this when installing my AMD Radeon RX 7600XT, it was released two weeks prior to me installing it, back then, and Linux Mint and games in it were clearly running off software rendering. Turns out LM uses a more tried and true LTS kernel by default, luckily ot easily allows you to switch or manage kernels through the GUI updater, so I got that fixed easily.