• SmokeyDope@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      23·
      4 days ago

      Hell yes! Scream it from rooftops with your menthol laced breath. The celestial calendar fortold that 2025 would truly be the year of the linux ™ the time is now!

      • Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
        18·
        4 days ago

        It will be glorious! I have to give lemmy and Valve a lot of credit for this. Made the move half a year ago and honestly it has been such a fresh breath of (minty) air.

        Just saw a big article on a major local news paper about support for Windows 10 ending soon and they mentioned linux mint as an alternative for most people who simply only use their browser on a PC since that is what a big portion of people actully do on a PC.

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
        7·
        4 days ago

        The year of Linux happened a long time ago. I assume you mean the year of Linux on desktop, in which case yes, it’s been foretold.

        • bluewing@lemm.ee
          1·
          2 days ago

          And as repeatedly told and retold every year…

          And I’m using, let’s see, (Goes into Settings to check): Fedora KDE Plasma 41. Meh, it works OK I guess. It’s getting hard to tell the difference between distros anymore. And I’ve been doing this long enough that I just something that doesn’t bother me for attention anymore.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      I started my bellcurve with Redhat in the 90s, Arch in the teens and I’m back at Redhat (Fedora).

      • bluewing@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 days ago

        You started in the 90’s and you didn’t don the sackcloth and ashes of Slack? At least for a little bit? Ah, the joys of writing config files!

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I did for a couple years. It was progressive and exciting at the time, but was kinda left behind by everything else as other distros started up. Mandrake grabbed me for a couple years, Suse at one point. I did do a Gentoo phase since at one point I would build and sell old machines as software routers with ipchains and Gentoo was a little more structured than just compiling my own kernels to keep it lightweight and fast.

          Never used it as a desktop, but Debian has been with me since probably 2003ish, mainly as my email server but it’s the base of every service I run myself. Never saw a point to using anything else, including RHEL. Any time I’ve tried something else, I’ve regretted it and gone back very quickly.

          • bluewing@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 day ago

            Ahhh, I knew it. A Man of Culture! Or something else, I’m not sure what though. I have threatened to get an old laptop and install slack on it for fun, but I seem to be too lazy to get it done…

            You mirror my travels through the Linux distros. Red Hat and Mandrake, Slack, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Suse, even Mint and now Fedora yet again. I’ve never bothered with setting up a server though, I just don’t have the need or desire.

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 days ago

      As if anyone likes to go to an ancient kernel on free will after living on snapshots of mainline for some time…

  • wazoobi@lemm.eeEnglish
    35·
    3 days ago

    That’s illegal! Only us big brain Arch users are allowed to say BTW! /s

    In all seriousness, I’m just glad Linux is in such a good place nowadays and I was able to switch to it full time for the past few years. Much easier to get into than my first attempt in college a over decade ago.

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
    27·
    4 days ago

    Bring Me The Horizon: “CAN YOU HEAR THE SILENCE?”

    Me, with mild-to-moderate tinnitus: boy I sure wish I couldn’t

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      17·
      3 days ago

      Whoa. Seeing it written that way, and without the L(inux) in front, had me misreading it as “Mint Desktop Environment” and not “Linux Mint Debian Edition”. Super weird, especially since I’ve been on LMDE since v4.

  • Aetherion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Debian based all the way through.

    But my biggest problem still persists with choosing the right distro, which has the best balanced option when considering these features?:

    • out of box experience
    • cutting edge gpu drivers
    • stability
    • beeing able to serve as headless server os
    • massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Not even Joking - Mint can do it. Override the default kernel to 6.8 (via GUI in Update Manager). I’ve been running Satisfactory on Mint with 6.8 at 4K without issue for months for example). Daily driver with rock solid uptime pedigree. Cinnamon is very comfortable and familiar and yet still very configurable if you like. I like some Mac OS niceties, so I switched mine to feel a bit more like it and use Albert for a quick launcher.

      I also use it on several headless servers. Though I leave the graphics running in case I want to KVM on those machines, but never really have to… SSH if need be.

      I’ve solidified and have been on Mint for like 7 years now? I just got tired of distro hopping and the team running the show does a fantastic job. Probably will switch to Debian (LMDE) - going to experiment with it soon.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
    14·
    4 days ago

    And, for apparently the first time, I wonder. Does Linux Mint refer to the plant/ingredient, connecting obviously with Cinnamon desktop, the green theme, and inviting variations called Linux Peppermint and Linux Spearmint? Or does it originate from being Linux, in Mint condition?

    Perhaps, we can all pretend it’s the second one, and instead of *I use Mint, btw," our catchphrase can be, “I mint Linux, btw.”

    • dangrousperson@feddit.org
      7·
      3 days ago

      Your comment made me curious and I tried looking for an answer. I found this forum post from 2008 asking basically the same thing. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=17953

      The founder Clem answered:

      Why the name MINT??

      Long story… I was writing articles/tutorials for linuxforums.org for a while and I eventually decided to publish them myself, so I needed a .com and I thought of a name. Mint is cold, it’s short, it’s fresh, it’s easy to type and to remember and in English it even means “cool”, “good condition”, “perfect” etc… I also liked the way Linux was associated with the poles, the penguins, the ice… the way a pristine kernel was called “vanilla”… and so Mint was kind of close to all of that. Great name, no particular meaning… just a series of nice subjective associations I guess.

      Clem do you like Mint?

      It’s my favorite non-alcoholic drink. If you ever go to Paris on a sunny day do order a “Diabolo Menthe” :wink: I also love the smell of Mint and the flavor (especially with lamb)

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
      8·
      4 days ago

      Pretty sure I’ve seen the mint leaf used before and the color green is used in the logo and theming.

  • Jumi@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 days ago

    Since I switched a few weeks ago I understand to urge to tell everyone about it even if they don’t want to hear.