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You would have to have used Linux Mint to understand what is being discussed.
Mint transcends mere Linux and is sort of in a class of its
own, unsurpassed in excellence.
I very seriously doubt you have ever even tried Mint,
so your opinion carries little weight.
The slogan of Linux Mint is "from freedom came elegance".
And, frankly, there is no distro more elegant,
more sleek, more modern, and more pleasing to use than Linux Mint Cinnamon edition.
kind of like an old Beetle Volkswagen, instead of just driving a Cadillac.
On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 09:12:30 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
I don't want all of Linux in one basket.
One of the main reasons I don't like Windows or Mac OS is that you have
to take whatever it is they give you. I don't want that lack of choice
for Linux.
Choice is good. Lack of choice means someone controls you.
I would never advocate for lack of choice,
only to make all the choices available to be Linux Mint.
With all concentration on Linux Mint alone, it could be further
developed to please everyone.
Same here, just a regular user.
Much like you, I've tried numerous distros
and none of them, zero, hold a candle to Mint in terms of ease of
use, compatibility, possibilities of customization, a great combination of pre-installed software, and likely the best community support options available for Linux.
I'm a computer user, not a Linux "enthusiast" who actively searches for
the most difficult and convoluted ways to achieve a simple task to give myself a sense of achievement.
I think
hardcore Linux users like for their computing experience to be
akin to early implementations of 86-DOS, MS-DOS, and later PC-DOS to give them a feeling of being different, being unique, and superior to those who like pretty things and buttons that can be clicked on.
Le 11-06-2025, CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> a écrit :
On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 09:12:30 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
I don't want all of Linux in one basket.
One of the main reasons I don't like Windows or Mac OS is that you have
to take whatever it is they give you. I don't want that lack of choice
for Linux.
Choice is good. Lack of choice means someone controls you.
I would never advocate for lack of choice,
You just do it in each of your messages about Mint.
only to make all the choices available to be Linux Mint.
Which is another proof you don't understand the technical differences
between distros. What you want would be at the same time a huge amount
of work for the maintainers and a very difficult task to install it.
With all concentration on Linux Mint alone, it could be further
developed to please everyone.
You can dream as long as you want, your sentence is just plain wrong.
It's way more easier to have multiple distros with different purposes
than one distro with every incompatible options available at the same
time.
Le 08-06-2025, CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> a écrit :
You would have to have used Linux Mint to understand what is being
discussed.
From your other messages, I'd say you know only Mint and don't
understand the differences between the different distros.
Mint transcends mere Linux and is sort of in a class of its own,
unsurpassed in excellence.
It's not enough to put cool words the ones behind the others to make a
true meaningful sentence. Unlike you, I can argue on a technical point
of view not on a poetry point of view about Linux.
I very seriously doubt you have ever even tried Mint,
He probably doesn't but there is no need to try it to have more
knowledge than you about the different distros.
so your opinion carries little weight.
His opinion carries little weight, but not because he didn't try it,
because he he knows nothing about Linux. In that, you are both at the
same level to discuss Linux.
The slogan of Linux Mint is "from freedom came elegance".
Yes, you argue about slogans, not about a technical point of view
because you can't. So, you can't understand the real subject, you can
just put words on an impression. He has found you just well adapted to
speak with him.
And, frankly, there is no distro more elegant,
Any distro can look exactly the same as Mint. You know nothing and you
just proved it, if wasn't already obvious.
more sleek, more modern, and more pleasing to use than Linux Mint
Cinnamon edition.
I could repeat the previous sentence with every word you put after
"more" but it would be only a waste of time.
kind of like an old Beetle Volkswagen, instead of just driving a
Cadillac.
Good, an analogy with cars, I'll be able to answer in the same way you
can understand. You are the one who would compare two cars only looking
at their pictures and decide the best one is the most beautiful one, oblivious to their technical characteristics. You opinion is just as
useless as it's wrong.
You will be very well together to speak nonsense about Linux.
Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:
Le 11-06-2025, CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> a écrit :
On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 09:12:30 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
I don't want all of Linux in one basket.
One of the main reasons I don't like Windows or Mac OS is that you
have to take whatever it is they give you. I don't want that lack of
choice for Linux.
Choice is good. Lack of choice means someone controls you.
I would never advocate for lack of choice,
You just do it in each of your messages about Mint.
only to make all the choices available to be Linux Mint.
Which is another proof you don't understand the technical differences >>between distros. What you want would be at the same time a huge amount
of work for the maintainers and a very difficult task to install it.
With all concentration on Linux Mint alone, it could be further
developed to please everyone.
You can dream as long as you want, your sentence is just plain wrong.
It's way more easier to have multiple distros with different purposes
than one distro with every incompatible options available at the same
time.
Mint is a great place to start, to learn the ropes of running Linux, it
makes certain key things easier, but with room for exploration. That
being said, I'm past the stage of needing such a friendly distro,
Debian rivals Mint's robustness, and offers the Cinnamon DE natively,
without being so Windows-like.