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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

If you know what KDE is you can make an informed choice. Mint is the recommendation for people who just want something easy to get started with.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    this touches on my point exactly. i find that due to the "over recommendation" of mint/cinnamon, that many new people will inevitably "waste time" with cinnamon. this is a feeling i have that frustrates me, is all. KDE is exactly as easy to get started with as is cinnamon.

    anyway cheers :)

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Exactly. I never see people actually liking Cinnamon as a DE, but everyone keeps recommending Mint. It's so frustrating, and perplexing.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    If Mint would just treat KDE as first class like it used to, I would be inclined to recommend it more often. Not as often as Fedora KDE β€” which has always seemed to have the best hardware support of all major distros β€” but at least I wouldn’t feel the need to fight people for recommending Mint to new users. Blindly recommending something as clunky and outdated as Mint and Cinnamon to new Windows expats is a great way to earn Linux a bad reputation just as things are looking up.

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