What did yall end up settling on?

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[–] 103 points 1 month ago (23 children)

Am I the only one here that uses their computer instead of fucking with it?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Ubuntu -> Mint.

    Mint works for me. So, I use Mint.

    I suppose it's partly because I'm old and have built something like nine PCs for myself over the years, and the novelty of all that wore off long ago. I just want something that works.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I used to distros hop a bunch, not so much anymore.

    Not really much point for me these days, arch based distros are so well documented that I can change basically anything I want without reinstalling the os, and Debian is similar for my homelab servers.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (9 children)

    I settled years ago on a setup I like, but until that point I bounced around like a rubber ball. That said, my current setup is built on Ubuntu and I think it's about time to switch to Debian to get rid of the corporate bullshit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (8 children)

    Yeah I’m a mint guy and I might switch to lmde, but not anytime soon

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (7 children)

    Aren't mint users supposed to reinstall when it's time for a major version update, anyway?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (6 children)

    Last time I think it updated through the update manager. Might have reinstalled itself in that process.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    I don't think that's how that works Ü

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    I think one of the whole reasons the mint team stick with Ubuntu is it grants them the ability to use the kernel manager which makes these things more seamless.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (3 children)

    Sure, but that's not what "reinstalling the OS" means in general use. I'm talking specifically about the kind of reinstall that overwrites everything on your root partition, and doing that for major updates seems to be a fairly common recommendation for certain kinds of distros; MX Linux says to do it like that, too.

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    No, that's a point release; it would be insane to reinstall for point releases. I'm talking about this: https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2

    C1. "Fresh" upgrades

    In a "fresh" upgrade you use the liveDVD of the new release to perform a new installation and to overwrite your existing partitions.

    A "Fresh" upgrade consists of the following steps:

    Making a backup of the data Making a backup of the software selection Performing a fresh installation using the liveDVD of the new release Restoring the data Restoring the software selection

    This is the recommended way to upgrade Linux Mint and it offers the following advantages:

    And it doesn't become quite clear from this page, but this was linked through the announcement for Mint 22, i.e. instructions to upgrade from 21.3 to 22. They do provide a GUI for in-place upgrades, though, so they at least generally support both methods, which is different for MX Linux (MX does provide instructions for upgrading in-place, but I found them absurdly complicated compared to Debian or Ubuntu).

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