Less expensive back in the 80s .

Yeah, man, that’s fair. Even our best administrations have been snakes to just about every other country besides pissrael.

I downvote and block the poster of every piece of slop I detect. Your dog got my upvote and deserves all the rest of them too.

Enough posts about Wayland are complaints I don’t care if it ever happens. Mint works fucking great just like it is.

Puppy Linux will just about run on a potato.

Then Ubuntu is Corporate Nerd Windows.

I didn’t know they made another one

Blade was alright

"Actually …

I still don’t get why Mint with its legacy Cinnamon desktop is recommended to new Linux users."

Now, we’re not fighting, but I need you to see what you did. This right here is just a milder version of what I had to sort through just to get started. I started using Mint before I came to Lemmy, and Reddit’s Linux subs are just as helpful, forgiving and accepting as the community here. Long time users are snarky, snobby and honestly not very helpful. It’s not just Arch users. It was like Muscle Beach, but digital. Just flexing, no help at all. Then a user suggested that Mint would be a painless transition and they were right. It worked on the first install and within an hour I had Thunderbird opening my email, Blender set back up just like I had it on my poor dead windows 10 desktop, had my slicer. I haven’t argued with anything. I’ve never opened the terminal. That’s why Noobs are often pointed to Mint. And I won’t leave it without a mighty good reason. My computer gets used for some of my hobbies, but computers quit being a hobby for me nearly 30 years ago.

Blockchain isn’t a Database, and the worst one is AS400.

Man, your attitude is why Linux is still so fringe. That purity test shit is a real turn off.

For a casual user like myself, all that matters is my computer boots, is navigable and runs programs that do what I need. Mint/Cinnamon does that. It does it with no fuss. And every time some great FOSS warrior comes along to tell me it’s not Linux enough I like it even more. I’m not interested in distro hopping, at all. To be really honest, I’m not interested in my computer. I just use it.

They’re talking to me. I use Mint. I’ve never opened the terminal. Just because some of us aren’t savvy doesn’t mean we aren’t at least casually interested. You could totally be joking too, I guess.

I’m out of silly.

… make money to pay taxes and buy products…

Y so smol?

Not to.

Almost 3 years and the only thing that has argued with me is Mint wouldn’t talk to my ancient audio interface. When I feel like recording again I’ll get a compliant one.

Linux Mint runs my laptop. I do some light 3d modeling and slicing, maybe a little photo editing. I guess that makes me a pretty casual user.