Used Ubuntu for years and tried Mint recently and will never look back. I love Mint!
@pfitz48812 ай бұрын
Like you I started out with Ubuntu.. have tried several other distributions. I decided about 2 years ago on Mint for my daily driver. Absolutely no regrets.
@laxenta2 ай бұрын
@@pfitz4881mint is so good man, nah leave ubuntu
@lineax59273 ай бұрын
Ubuntu and Gnome are more my thing in terms of feel, but i only recommend Mint to every beginner.
@K-CHOMA2 ай бұрын
Why for beginner? This is good distro for almost everyone. Even very experienced Linux user can make everything on mint becouse this is still Debian. You just get it with preinstalled apps
@lineax59272 ай бұрын
@@K-CHOMA i dont wanted to say mint is only for beginners. I sayed mint is best for beginner
@pfitz48812 ай бұрын
@@K-CHOMA Absolutely agree! VERY experienced user here and completely satisfied with Mint.
@crowcypher5821Ай бұрын
I'm running T480 on Ubuntu latest version, and I find both Mint Cinnamon and XFCE laggy and buggy. For me Ubuntu is the best no need for customization, i dont why this distro gets the most hate despite being the most used distro.
@lineax5927Ай бұрын
@@crowcypher5821 I think one problem is the fact that its developed by a company and not the community.
@bjd3713 ай бұрын
I recently tried and fell in love with LMDE. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian, LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) is based directly on Debian.
@RustedCroaker2 ай бұрын
so the kernel is also older then in ubuntu?
@pfitz48812 ай бұрын
@@RustedCroaker Not currently. They are both on 6.8 today.
@TheDaizMКүн бұрын
What about it got you hooked?
@WinstoneSmith3 ай бұрын
Linux Mint deserved the point for performance and, undoubtedly, software available: Flatpak is simply the way to go. But the issue in this comparison is the time omission: Mint uses the Ubuntu base, but months afterwards. So the software point would suffer as well.
@crowcypher5821Ай бұрын
Nah, mint cinnamon and xfce is both laggy/buggy on my end (t480), its not so polish unlike ubuntu. You guys are giving us newbies false expectations.
@pratikbohre19363 ай бұрын
I use Mint Btw, It just Works...
@MattMcCullough3 ай бұрын
Mint Rocks
@PankajDhande3 ай бұрын
I use Ubuntu, it also works. I used Fedora, it also worked. Manjaro works as well.
@ati74743 ай бұрын
Mint BTW? 😂 I use Arch BTW 😜
@juhaeerjayran424626 күн бұрын
@@ati7474 nobody cares
@ati747426 күн бұрын
@@juhaeerjayran4246 Yet you reacted to it.
@Deimos_Fresh3 ай бұрын
Ubuntu 24.04 for me. I tried Mint multiple times, but always had problems running it across multiple PC configurations. My friend even had constant crashes which I personally not experienced and couldn't help solve for him. Ubuntu just works and I had no problems with snaps either.
@rsquaremedia-innovationlab3 ай бұрын
💯 Linux mint keeps crashing intermittently
@pfitz48812 ай бұрын
@@rsquaremedia-innovationlab Very interesting. Been using Mint for several years on desktop as well as laptop. I have yet to have a crash.
@abhishekhembrom87813 ай бұрын
Hands Down to Linux Mint or LMDE
@NeilHaranАй бұрын
I use mint exclusively and always XFCE. Lightweight and stable.
@oooooooooooooooooo7093 ай бұрын
I'm a Fedora user but i like Mint as it's a top experience out of the box for linux beginners 👌
@FPI233 ай бұрын
I'm using Mint XFCE and I must say it is my favorite so far.
@davidumoren9033 ай бұрын
I go for Ubuntu 22.04LTS. I currently use Ubuntu on my Hardware and the UI is just so good and fast
@juancarlosrodriguez50223 ай бұрын
I chose Linix Mint 22 because it's fantastic and because I don't trust Canonical. I'm fleeing Microsot not to fall in the handa of another untrustful coropo.
@Home-o2v4h3 ай бұрын
Corporates are necessary for Linux to grow.
@eijentwun55093 ай бұрын
@@Home-o2v4h Not Microsoft!
@Home-o2v4h3 ай бұрын
@@eijentwun5509 Nothing stays high quality without money. Money is necessary to maintain the quality of any product. Yes corporates can be greedy and thats why i also think open source projects need to be government funded.
@rsquaremedia-innovationlabАй бұрын
ubuntu also has cinnamon edition which makes it look exactly like mint cinnamon. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS. Mint 21 mate, XFCE & cinnamon would crash all the time on my old laptop, which seems to crash less on Linux mint 22 cinnamon. Ubuntu just works out of the box after installation - like wifi works automatically along with audio. This isnt the case with Linux Mint which consistently doesnt recognize wifi after a fresh install - which is problematic.
@damolin773 ай бұрын
Linux Mint for me is more polished and a cleaner UI in my opinion.
@mokapot87793 ай бұрын
Nah, Cinnamon has way more features. If you want something simple and minimalistic, Gnome is the way
@NavatejRatnan3 ай бұрын
@@mokapot8779 its polished, and you talk about gnome being minimalistic while looking at that UI? no thanks. GNOME as it is a really good DE but cinnamon is just better if your using it with linux mint or a user friendly OS like ubuntu, and etc.
@mokapot87793 ай бұрын
@@NavatejRatnan Gnome looks more polished to me. Every element of the UI follows a modern, uniform design (I'm the kind of person who loves Mac OS or Windows 11 UI). Cinnamon, on the other hand, looks like something from the 2000s that’s kind of similar to Windows but worse. Cinnamon is fine if you're used to Windows and primarily use a mouse and keyboard. However, I use trackpad a lot, and the trackpad gestures and animations on Gnome are just way better.
@NADEEMKHAN-sj5hn3 ай бұрын
@@mokapot8779Dowoad, install and Use Orchis theme with Tela circle icons on Cinnamon and Xfce then you will know that they are also good and modern looking desktops like kde plasma or windows 11
@NavatejRatnan3 ай бұрын
@@mokapot8779 maybe, but cinnamon is still much more minimal and just does the job instantly due to how fast it can be, sometimes gnome just gives random problems like lag when your trying to switch workspaces though nothing heavy is going on
@cybernit33 ай бұрын
I use Ubuntu but think I might go with CachyOS with KDE or Hyprland in the future. Linux Mint Cinnamon says they have experimental wayland support; so Ubuntu might have an edge here for now and this is important for gaming, etc.
@winksmt012 ай бұрын
I use Mint cinnamon on my desktop and Ubuntu cinnamon on my laptop. Both are good OS in my humble opinion.
@doracakez20 күн бұрын
linux mint feels like butter, smooth. i love the UI and everything. i wish windows had this design.
@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg41153 ай бұрын
Linux Mint, or better Linux Mint Debian Edition.
@jukiy673 ай бұрын
beginner = linux mint, advance= lmde
@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg41153 ай бұрын
@@jukiy67 a man of culture.
@purplevanilla3 ай бұрын
@@jukiy67What abot the intermediate one
@matyasmarkkovacs83363 ай бұрын
Yeah, but LMDE has older apps.
@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg41153 ай бұрын
@@matyasmarkkovacs8336 but well tested ones. If I need a cutting edge, repos and Arch-verse are the way.
@ericandrews48613 ай бұрын
Great review … always like your content.
@LinuxTex3 ай бұрын
Thank you Eric. See you around.
@manprtsekhon3 күн бұрын
@@LinuxTex your opinion looks one sided to me without any solid basis.
@ZafarIqbal-zz1nsАй бұрын
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS has started to feel as buggy as Windows after recent updates, making my daily workflow challenging. After sleep, the Wi-Fi often fails to reconnect, and shutdowns sometimes stall, forcing a hard shutdown. There are times when I think my laptop is off, only to find it heating up in my bag because it didn't actually power down. Occasionally, the system even freezes on the login screen, where no commands work to revive it. I set up my entire environment on this OS expecting stability, but now I’m regretting that choice deeply.
@sf10all012 ай бұрын
Linux Mint WiFi issue is one reason I'm going back to Ubuntu
@paulbonnici67332 ай бұрын
Mint is good at playing games?
@ericandrews48613 ай бұрын
I can’t stand Ubuntu’s desktop layout or functionality. I dislike the launcher on the left … won’t use them at all.
@RealMangaAddict3 ай бұрын
Why not move it to the bottom or top?
@Vantud3913 ай бұрын
It's GNOME. You can install other DEs for it though.
@rsquaremedia-innovationlab3 ай бұрын
Use Ubuntu cinnamon version
@Autodidact_Polymath3 ай бұрын
Snaps are enough for me to unequivocally choose Ubuntu. From my experience Snaps work much faster and more stable than Flatpak, Deb or RPM. Every time I launch a Flatpak on my Debian system first a pop up window appears saying "the application is running in the background", and only after a while the application window appears. While snaps launch like a rocket. And this on the same system. I am a Linux user since 2008. Ubuntu and Snaps are awesome and wish them to become even better.
@sheldonkupa91203 ай бұрын
I like ubuntu for being a basis for many good distributions. I used it many years. Ubuntu itself is now a no go for me due to snap. Linux Mint is the better ubuntu now. I just installed gnome, sudo apt install gnome, ready to go!
@rsquaremedia-innovationlab3 ай бұрын
Linux Mint keeps crashing unlike Ubuntu, so Ubuntu is most reliable from my POV. Secondly ubuntu is also available with cinnamon desktop, so the difference is minimal now.
@gautamrajput5190Ай бұрын
I have mistakenly removed windows while installing mint cinnamon , no i will never go to windows again 50% ram usage idle to 15 huge difference
@lushu20123 ай бұрын
I use Mint Cinemon, I am satisfied as a beginner
@e0028403 ай бұрын
Nice video, mate! Please make a BigLinux review, as well as their community ISOs with XFCE and Gnome
@jx86xj3 ай бұрын
Many can choose on basis of gnome or cinnamon
@antoniiocaluso10713 ай бұрын
these best-of-distros videos are getting mighty...endlessly redundant, don't yas think?
@konradzuse47783 ай бұрын
Linux Mint: no global index based desktop search. That's another point for Ubuntu. 9:8 Ubuntu!
@manprtsekhon3 күн бұрын
Performance, hahaha ; just say it that you are Ubuntu fan otherwise everyone knows who performs better even without applying any conditions.
@AlexteryTАй бұрын
Only if mint had dock like Mac instead of pannel like windows
@marekotreba79257 күн бұрын
You can customize it, mine looks like Mac os
@wvbosch3 ай бұрын
Installed default Ubuntu, killed my machine (16GB RAM, Intel Gen12) . It was slow from the word go, ongoing freezes and eventually I couldn't get work done. Installed Mint 22 and now my computer is flying again. Ubuntu is just too heavy.
@StrawberryKitten3 ай бұрын
I don't believe you.
@rsquaremedia-innovationlab3 ай бұрын
What version of Ubuntu?
@rsquaremedia-innovationlab3 ай бұрын
@@StrawberryKitten😂😂😂 💯💯💯💯
@wvbosch3 ай бұрын
@@rsquaremedia-innovationlab 24.04.1 I am however running mint now, also based on Ubuntu and it runs MUCH faster than stock Ubuntu. Mint stripped away some resource hogs clearly.
@pfitz48812 ай бұрын
Sorry, but I wouldn't call the Gnome desktop gorgeous. Very functional?.. yes, but nowhere near gorgeous.
@aymenchraf3 ай бұрын
I don't know why people use linux mint while they can use Kubuntu. (linux mint is a great OS, but Kubuntu with KDE plasma is in another level).
@tridens67083 ай бұрын
LMD ❤😊
@misterweise3 ай бұрын
My love - Kubuntu.
@ArchLarsАй бұрын
Arch Linux
@SitWithAnkit3 ай бұрын
Linux Mint should hire a designer and fix the icons and spacing in the Cinnamon Desktop. It looks ugly, no matter how good it is.
@taxaction13 ай бұрын
Ubuntu Gnome LTS wins hands down for me. Rock solid and reliable. Enjoyed the video 👍. Linux Mint is a good distribution, but the GTK 2 UI puts me off after a while and I prefer Snaps over Flatpaks if I ever have to use them.
@guilherme50943 ай бұрын
👍
@asif86723 ай бұрын
i used Mint for 2 years but switched to Ubuntu, personally for me the look of mint is very outdated and ugly. i know snap is slow its okay for me.
@UbuntuPersonNoMint3 ай бұрын
Ubuntu better. Mint looks old and ugly
@Alex-pg1gt2 ай бұрын
Manjaro cinnamon
@dkkdkkc63 ай бұрын
Can they make mint not ugly.😅
@rsquaremedia-innovationlab3 ай бұрын
Yes, you can customize it with different themes and add any icon pack
@dkkdkkc63 ай бұрын
First impression is important to atract a new user lol. Who want to use a new ugly OS when they have a beautiful current ones.😂😂@@rsquaremedia-innovationlab
@dkkdkkc63 ай бұрын
@@rsquaremedia-innovationlab First impressions are all for the nubies lol.