I respectfully disagree. In my experience, Linux isn’t any buggier than Windows, and hasn’t been for a decent number of years.
The main thing hurting Linux adoption in my opinion is that the best-known beginner distros (Ubuntu and Mint) just aren’t very good compared to most others.
OpenSUSE is the best beginner distro in my opinion, with Fedora as a close second, and LMDE would be the best if it was feature complete.
What do those distros have that Mint doesn’t have? I’m not being rude, it’s just that I recently switched from Windows to Linux Mint on my laptop, and I can’t imagine what features I’m missing. It’s easy to use and does everything I need it to do so far. I haven’t experienced any weird bugs yet, and compared to Windows 10 it’s a much less frustrating experience overall.
Latest kernel (hence driver), mostly. For most people Linux Mint is great distro that mostly works out of the box. However, for gaming, Linux Mint is one of the weakest since they tend to ship old kernel.
We have to understand that gaming in Linux is in very active development right now. Having out of date kernel can make you unable to use some device, or having less performace than those with latest kernel.
Hovewe, if you are happy with Linux Mint and see no problem, it’s okay to stay. It has great community and the developers are awesome.
Mint in my experience is one of the buggiest distros (after Manjaro and on par with Ubuntu).
I guess this is mostly caused by being a distro based on another distro based on another distro.
Mint doesn’t have the manpower to reliably fix bugs in their own distro, so the bugfixes need to be passed from upstream to Debian to Ubuntu to Mint.
Considering I’ve had far fewer problems and frustrations with Mint so far than I had with Windows, this bodes well. I’ll save your comment and plan on giving OpenSUSE a try!
I respectfully disagree. In my experience, Linux isn’t any buggier than Windows, and hasn’t been for a decent number of years.
The main thing hurting Linux adoption in my opinion is that the best-known beginner distros (Ubuntu and Mint) just aren’t very good compared to most others.
OpenSUSE is the best beginner distro in my opinion, with Fedora as a close second, and LMDE would be the best if it was feature complete.
What do those distros have that Mint doesn’t have? I’m not being rude, it’s just that I recently switched from Windows to Linux Mint on my laptop, and I can’t imagine what features I’m missing. It’s easy to use and does everything I need it to do so far. I haven’t experienced any weird bugs yet, and compared to Windows 10 it’s a much less frustrating experience overall.
Latest kernel (hence driver), mostly. For most people Linux Mint is great distro that mostly works out of the box. However, for gaming, Linux Mint is one of the weakest since they tend to ship old kernel.
We have to understand that gaming in Linux is in very active development right now. Having out of date kernel can make you unable to use some device, or having less performace than those with latest kernel.
Hovewe, if you are happy with Linux Mint and see no problem, it’s okay to stay. It has great community and the developers are awesome.
Ah, that makes sense. Honestly, I haven’t gotten around to trying any games yet (which is what this thread is about, so I’ll just excuse myself :P)
I’m running Linux Mint 21.2 using the 6.2 kernel without issue. Granted it’s not a gaming PC as I use it for media.
Mint in my experience is one of the buggiest distros (after Manjaro and on par with Ubuntu).
I guess this is mostly caused by being a distro based on another distro based on another distro.
Mint doesn’t have the manpower to reliably fix bugs in their own distro, so the bugfixes need to be passed from upstream to Debian to Ubuntu to Mint.
Considering I’ve had far fewer problems and frustrations with Mint so far than I had with Windows, this bodes well. I’ll save your comment and plan on giving OpenSUSE a try!
I’ve only used Fedora and Mint so far. I might give a try to Opensuse soon. See my edit for more info on bugs encountered.
OpenSUSE Thumbleweed or whatever they call their rolling-release
Tumbleweed