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Does Mint support arm64 yet? I would be ecstatic for a mint VM in parallels on my MacBook but last time I tried I couldnβt I donβt think. Stock Ubuntu is just.. okay but I always loved the out of box experience and look and feel of mint it was my choice for dual booting years ago on old windows laptops
Can you opt out of snap on Ubuntu? I've heard some system and essential apps use it, so it might break stuff if you do
Can you opt out of snap on Ubuntu?
For now. I'm 100% convinced Ubuntu will move to a fully Snap model leading up to 26.04, basically making Ubuntu Core the mainstream version.
linux mint is based
Serious question , my laptop is getting old. 7-8, years now I don't want to put money in tech for w new one. I want to use it with Linux , as I just use for very Norma stuff and Zero gaming. My use cases will be use of office, use if browsers, simple image editors, pdf reader and manipulation, copying images from to and from HDD , copying media to HDD etc. Connecting iPhone, android for file uploading download etc.
I don't want hassle of
What Linux will just work? I mean simple install and start using.
Mint.
In my newbie experience, the answer is: No.
There are still random snags and blocks to things you will probably expect or want to be able to do.
That being said, it's sooooo much better than is was. If those snags are minor and not irritating for you, you'll be able to work around them, I think.
And the wider community can be friendly and helpful, though not always empathetic / fully understanding of the lack of Linux knowledge you might be starting from, (again) in my experience.
Haven't tried to print anything yet either...printers always seem to Bork on nearly every OS...
Edit: first installed Linux mint this week on a dell XPS laptop.
None of the usual big distros is gonna force to do any of that. Try Mint or Ubuntu, you're gonna be absolutely fine
So Mint is Ubuntu based right? If Ubuntu screws up even more doesn't that affect Mint as well?
on my office machine: I have Ubuntu(23.10) in its full glory. it is a good distro. I really enjoy gnome shell with Wayland.
on my home machine: I won't let a single proprietary prpgram exist on my Debian. and the only wm would be i3(with xfce as a backup, and as a source of other common programs like terminal).
I've used mint in my university(default distro there), which I also enjoyed for its familiarity to users coming from proprietary operations systems.
my foray into GNU/Linux(from w*ndows) was thanks to Tails, which made me appreciate how different an OS can be(actually, my first computer had Ubuntu 4.10. the computer lasted for less than 2 years. hence I don't count it).
and I've also helped many friends set-up distros like zorin and peppermint.
at the end of day, no matter the distro, it's GNU/Linux. and that's all that matters.
Iβm really enjoying zorin right now.