Linux Mint Tour

[@paulsteinmetz5640]

Mench is the most enthusiastic weather app power user 😄 Great Video 🤌

[@linuxmench2118]

Thanks for the kind words and positive feedback, I really appreciate it. 🙂

[@esra_erimez]

You Sir, are a gentleman and a scholar

[@linuxmench2118]

Thank you! I am a mencsh, btw 🙂

[@Iainmaclennan70]

When I first discovered Linux 15 years ago I distro hopped all the time but for the last 5 years I have stayed with the first distro I tried which was Linux Mint! It just works flawlessly without any fuss! It's a set and forget distro!!

[@linuxmench2118]

Well said. Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@CyperN077]

LMDE was my 1st full time distro.

[@linuxmench2118]

That's great, thanks for sharing.

[@kiwicol9699]

A good choice for someone just starting out with Linux. Lot's of online support to help you configure Mint, the team behind Mint are very active and fully test updates before releasing them so it's unlikely once installed you will have any issues. It's Debian based and not a rolling release like Arch but they do have a unstable version "Sid" once your more confident if you want to try kernel and package updates much sooner. As a pure Arch user I wouldn't recommend any of the Arch based distro's presently. If/once your confident within the Linux world and have a reasonable grasp of using some of the simple commands using the terminal and want to use Arch I'd recommend using Archinstall from the Linux iso and make your own personal distro from the package options.

[@linuxmench2118]

That's great advice. Thanks for sharing.

[@rmcellig]

Excellent video!!! Thanks

[@linuxmench2118]

You're welcome. Thanks for the positive feedback, I really appreciate it!

[@jameshoeve4466]

Mint is such an easy switch. I've used Windows forever and I don't know why I waited so long to switch. It runs so fast and has more apps and features. Super easy and fun to learn. No more spying from Microsoft.

[@linuxmench2118]

That's great. Thanks for sharing!

[@kiwicol9699]

Why do you think there is such a rush to build more powerful servers and push AI.....the amount of telemetry being collected now from Apple, Microsoft, social media giants and corporations is massive and it all needs to be collected and analyzed as fast as possible. I'm switching apps if they introduce any sort of telemetry and the first thing to do on a new install is to go looking for any privacy setting/options and turn all spying off!

[@linuxmench2118]

@@kiwicol9699 I think the world is racing towards a global one world government. Where everyone will be monitored and controlled. They will tell us it's for security and safety. But the common people will lose their rights. Free speech will be disallowed. Every comment made online in social media is recorded. Right now, in Canada, you can be charged with hate speech for raising questions about particular protected groups, even if your questions are asked in a polite and diplomatic fashion. I wouldn't be surprised if one day, Linux Desktop will be made illegal. The internet will only talk to Windows computers using Google Chrome. Linux Desktop, Firefox, etc. will be unable to access the internet.

[@averagetechnologyenojyer]

i love the webappp manager in linux mint , i installed in pop os using pacstall (i feel pop has been getting a bit behind in the progress compared to mint but is still good) Great video!

[@linuxmench2118]

Thanks for the positive feed back, I appreciate it. I never used the web app. I'll have to check it out.

[@averagetechnologyenojyer]

@@linuxmench2118 ☺

[@hynexhynek]

great vid

[@linuxmench2118]

Thanks for the positive feedback.

[@KODEROR]

♥

[@linuxmench2118]

Thanks!

[@demerdemer328]

The Title should be: The best linux for newbie with older hardware

[@linuxmench2118]

Linux Mint is about to issue a point release. I don't think the kernel will be that old and most hardware should work. If one has the latest and greatest hardware, there are other options in the Linux world. Arch would probably be best for the most up to date hardware; however, I don't recommend Arch to people migrating from Windows.

[@demerdemer328]

@linuxmench2118 Arch is not User friendy and not Plug and Play

[@NandorSolymosi]

... another solution is to by a Mac and use macOS .... plus install Homebrew 🙂

[@linuxmench2118]

Yes, but an expensive solution 🙂

[@kiwicol9699]

Going from one proprietary OS to another is not what people switching to Linux want! Linux users have 100% control over every piece of code from the OS to applications. Going to Mac would be a pointless expensive solution with many of the same problems.

[@NandorSolymosi]

@ … I have an old MacBook, installed proxmox on it … inside proxmox have VM machines ( Linux mint, arch, …) , Ubuntu server ( with plex ), and Openmediavault as NAS ….

[@linuxmench2118]

@@kiwicol9699 I totally agree with. You expressed what I thought but failed to explain. Thanks for clarifying my thoughts.

[@linuxmench2118]

@NandorSolymosi I never used Proxmox; however, using VM machines in Windows or Mac is a great way to learn Linux.