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Everything I need is still in in the old settings windows that haven't changed in 23 years (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't know why I even bother opening the settings app

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I used Mint when I first started playing around with Linux about a decade ago and it was pretty good. But I recently tossed it on a laptop that I primarily just wanted to run a web browser and have minimal faffing about and I've been extremely impressed with how it's matured.

The DE is snappy and unobtrusive with extremely sane defaults. The software center is extremely usable and has very nice flatpak integration, their replacement desktop utilities for the Gnome utilities they once used are very full featured and don't get in your way, and in most cases where Canonical built their own tool that nobody else uses, Mint has already swapped it with the standard tool. If your goal is to just get a Linux desktop going with minimal faffing about Mint has really become a brilliant choice to do so with