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.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    As someone who hates Windows with a passion, once everyone recommend Linux Mint, I knew I had to try it.

    I immediately had negative first impressions. I simply don’t wanna use something with a desktop environment that reminds me of something that I hate. I get that it makes transitioning a lot easier for many, but for me it simply looks too similar to Windows.

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      11 months ago

      I’m sure you know it by now, but Mint is the “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Windows!” distro very much on purpose, haha.

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        11 months ago

        As a person who doesn’t want to fiddle with my OS or the terminal, yeah, I love me some Mint.

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      11 months ago

      Swapping out KDE/Plasma for Gnome or anything else is dead simple most of the time. The DE isn’t locked to the distro, you can have multiple DEs and windowing systems (X and Wayland) installed at once. You can select them from your login manager.