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.

  • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Most of them.

    • Debian world - apt sucks. For something with a sole purpose of resolving a dependency tree, it’s surprisingly bad at that.

    • Redhat world - everything is soooo old. I can see why business people like it, buy I rarely, if ever, agree with business people.

    • Opensuse world - I’ve only tried it once, probably 15 years ago. Didn’t really know my way around computers all that much at the time, but it didn’t click and I’ve left it. Later on I found out about their selling out to Microsoft and never bothered touching it again.

    • Arch - it was my daily for a year or two. Big fan. It still runs my email. At some point the size of packages started to annoy me, though. Still has the best wiki. I’ve never really bothered with the spinoffs, as the model of Arch makes them useless and more problematic to deal with.

    I’ve got the Gentoo bug now. For the first time I genuinely feel ~/. A lean, mean system of machines :)

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      never really bothered with the spinoffs, as the model of Arch makes them useless and more problematic to deal with

      I highly enjoy using EndeavourOS. But then again, I wouldn’t classify it as a spinoff, it’s pretty much vanilla Arch, but purple.

      Now Manjaro on the other hand… Tried it and understood why so many people don’t like it within the first week.

      • estebanlm@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Mind to elaborate a little bit more about the Manjaro problem? I am driving it since a couple of years without any issue but I keep hearing this… now I am afraid :)

        • LeFantome@programming.dev
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          9 months ago

          I hope it works for you forever. I am not going to get in an argument with the other Manjaro users here that will come to argue with you.

          Just keep in mind that most of the people warning you away from Manjaro have a story that basically sums up as “I used to love Manjaro until, one day, it totally broke on me. Now I won’t touch it.” Sadly, this includes me. Will you join us one day? I hope not.