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On mint for a while now, people usually call mint a newbie distro, any reason to "upgrade" to a different distro? (lemmy.world)
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Hi, how's it going? I've been daily driving mint with i3 for a while now, (takes like 500mb idle ram) but I always hear mint being called a newbie distro, I know arch is harder to set up and more customizable for example, but overall im wondering, in which cases one would go from mint to another distro? what can make other distros "better" than mint? i'll end up using a window manager (i3 or if thats not availible some other lightweight one) so differences in desktop environments i dont really care that much about

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[–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

I enjoy Mint. It's my daily driver, and has been for years. I cut my teeth installing Slackware from floppy disks back in the day, and have been a *nix user/admin for 30+ years (IRIX, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX) and I'm a developer, so I think I qualify as a gray beard rather than a newbie.

It just works. Distro wars are silly, as the other commenter said.

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    Solaris

    You just made me shudder. I learned to program na room full of Sun-3 machines (I think they were 3, not 4) running Solaris. They were ancient by the time I took the classes on them. "It's compiling" was an actual problem and took way too long.

    I actually got to help replace them with shiny new Dell machines the next year while working as a student in the IT department at the college.

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