How to replace Windows with #Linux Mint on your PC https://zd.net/425XpZN#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0j by @sjvn
It's not that hard, and I, for one, find Linux Mint much better than Windows.
@lightweight It's hard to take anything anti-Microsoft serious from Ziff-Davis publications, because they've spent the last 40 years propping up Microsoft sales.
Maybe an anti-big tech stance should include ignoring the enablers?
@lwriemen @lightweight BTW, that article has a shitty host. As a Tor user I cannot view it.
@koherecoWatchdog @lightweight @lwriemen Ubuntu is bad in other ways (snaps, adverts) – and it's corporate-affiliated, meaning there's an unavoidable conflict of interest.
Have you considered the rather-similar, but community-governed, Debian?
@wizzwizz4 @lwriemen @lightweight Debian is my fav. But I’ve not considered installing Debian for a novice user.
@koherecoWatchdog @lwriemen @lightweight Try it: suitably-configured, it should be better. Ubuntu doesn't provide any usability features that Debian doesn't have, and the number of forum posts with people complaining about snap misconfigurations… – though if you know of a better apt package manager than Synaptic, I'm all ears. (Debian with GNOME has GNOME Software, but that's not quite a replacement.)
@koherecoWatchdog @lwriemen @lightweight Whatever this program is looks good: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-packagekit/stable/add-remove.html.en
@wizzwizz4 @lightweight @lwriemen Some pkgs are made for Ubuntu (PPAs, Snap, etc). That’s a bit of an injustice and bad idea in itself. Shame on those projects. I’ve personally had the luxery of simply ignoring packages that assume Ubuntu-specific frameworks, but what happens when a novice wants something that’s non-trivial on debian? Ubuntu is a superset of Debian.
@koherecoWatchdog @lightweight @lwriemen Many PPAs work fine on Debian, and (in my experience) answers for how to do things are easier to find. If any distro could be called the standard, it's Debian.
Snaps are self-contained – they're almost all a right buggy mess, but if you *really* want to use one, it'll be just as compatible with Debian as with Ubuntu.
@wizzwizz4 @koherecoWatchdog @lightweight @lwriemen
> Many PPAs work fine on Debian
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian
As a PPA maintainer for a few years I saw numerous issues with Debian users trying to use our PPA. The Debian and Ubuntu repositories are not identical. Granted the software in question had a boatload of dependencies (FreeCAD) but IMHO using PPAs in Debian should not be recommended. I would rather use flatpaks.
@lwriemen @lightweight
I can do that .
Microsoft -free since 1998.
@lightweight @lwriemen @lightweight OTOH sometimes a criticism from an ally can be the most impactful. If they’re under friendly fire, perhaps they really fucked up. OTOH, #Mint is a shitty distro to promote b/c they’ve opted to jail their docs in #Cloudflare’s walled garden. Docs should be open & accessible, so the novices who I’ve previously put on Mint I have switched to Ubuntu.