I’ve been using Linux Mint since forever. I’ve never felt a reason to change. But I’m interested in what persuaded others to move.

  • Spectacle8011A
    62·
    11 months ago

    Anything that isn’t Arch.

    • Ubuntu’s package managers won’t stop fighting with each other so I can’t complete an upgrade easily. Also, I hate apt. Trusting prebuilt binaries from PPAs seems a little dangerous to me compared to trusting build scripts in the AUR, so I don’t feel comfortable with that. I do like it otherwise, though.
    • Linux Mint is fine, I guess, but no Wayland yet and I don’t like Cinnamon. Same PPA issues. Has some more outdated packages than Ubuntu.
    • openSUSE is great, but the package managers won’t stop fighting with each other and it’s lacking a few packages. I like the Open Build System a lot less than the AUR.
    • Fedora is fine, while missing some packages, but it broke on me after a week and I had no idea how to fix it so I stopped using it.
    • Pop_OS makes everything about GNOME worse.
    • Debian’s packages are too old.
    • Manjaro is more work than Arch and the packages are out of sync with the AUR.
    • The packages I want aren’t in Solus. Is this distro even still around?

    And for distros I won’t consider trying:

    • Gentoo is too much work.
    • Qubes is too much work and I can’t play games on it.
    • I don’t like any of the ZorinOS modifications and the packages are old.
    • DAS_AMAN@lemmus.orgEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Just wanna add ZorinOS packages get updated regularly - at least faster than Ubuntu and Mint. Very good analysis btw

      • Spectacle8011A
        1·
        11 months ago

        The main package I was thinking of was the kernel. I saw the recent Linux Experiment video by Nick and they were using a kernel version (6.1?) that was no longer supported nor an LTS.

      • Spectacle8011A
        1·
        11 months ago

        This is good to know. I’m more into rolling releases like Arch, Fedora, and openSUSE anyway, so the latest Ubuntu’s packages tend to be a bit old for me anyway.

        • Andy@programming.dev
          1·
          11 months ago

          I’m not really recommending it over Arch, but my favorite rolling Debian distro is Siduction.