Thanks for this recommendation as it’s potentially a logical step. I’ve thought about this but not researched it enough, yet. I don’t understand enough about the differences yet. Hypothetically, do I need or want Mint on Debian, or do I just want to get the real deal? Not posing the question to you, just what I’ve yet to research further. Mint is currently working fine for me, so there’s no rush.
I’m sure it’d be fine, I’m probably not willing to put in the right amount of effort. I think a big fear for me is I use the computer for work, and while I have others, I prefer this one. I may not have the 15-30min to research and resolve something I did to myself.
I also try not to be the person who asks for help on the same question for the 17th time.
So far I’ve always been able to find answers in documentation or communities. Turns out I’m not so unique. ;).
I’m with you here, sometimes I’m really lazy and don’t want to mess with it. Other times I’m hell-bent on doing something I know how to do in a GUI through terminal.
Mint has let me keep my system OS rock solid, and I’m not afraid to try about anything in the vm. Reinstall when time permits or just roll back to a snapshot.
I’ve got time shift installed, but I use my computer for work, so there’s some draw to stability and having everything just work.
I looked at Manjaro VERY briefly, and I played with Endeavor a bit. I installed several distros as VMs just to poke around. I found Debian familiar which is likely the main reason I find myself leaning that way.
Mint was my “gateway distro” to get away from windows as a daily driver. It still is my daily driver and it’s given me enough guardrails to not screw it up too badly and learn.
I’m looking to go further up stream towards Debian. I’ve looked at arch and “arch that’s not allowed to be called arch because it has a gui installer”, but I’m not ready/able/“risk-tolerant-enough” to keep that stable as my daily driver. Fedora dormant seem quite right for me.
I really like mint, it meets my needs, has treated me well.
This is usually how I end up exiting vim without saving, at least if I’m honest about it.
Maybe one day I’ll get better at it. Nano has been plenty for me.
Thank you for this. I’ll definately check out Fedora’s KDE spin. I have used Kubuntu in the past, but it was back a bit and I got attached to Linux Mint.
A lot of negatives seem to come up around Oracle and Canonical being involved with SUSE and Ubuntu, but probably isn’t a huge deal in the greater picture.
Thank you for calling this out in advance. I likely would have encountered this as I try to take the approach of research, then do.
This is the first time I’ve ever posted for Linux help/or guidance. Searching forums has historically lead me to an answer close enough to resolve my not-so unique issue.
I think this might be it. I need to figure out where I want to learn more (there’s lots of community support out there) and then just start having at it. I’m not limited by my current choice over a different distro in reality, though it may be easier to use something with less built-in once I know where I’m going. Or, I could get good at removing the extra I don’t use, but depending on how much I try to customize away from their standard, that could get “entertaining”.
Well, that won’t age well, or maybe it will…depending on your perspective!
Thanks, adding endeavor to the list to try out.
Thanks, I’ll give this a try with Mint, and I’ll bet if I experiment in a VM first, I’ll enjoy life a lot more when tying to do so to my core install. I don’t know why I never really thought about putting a different DE on Mint, but it seems obvious once mentioned. It might be the easiest way to get a fresh feel in a baby-steps approach.
Very good point! I made an edit to attempt to better answer, but in reality, I don’t think I know exactly what I want. I’ve seen a lot of distros labeled as beginner-level, but I think that primarily means that there’s more capability around UI available to support configuration and package management. Am I limiting myself and what I can learn by staying where I am? Maybe I’m just in decision paralysis because I already could do ANYTHING what with I’ve got, I just need to figure out what I want to do.
Ok, I realize this is c/selfhosted, but I have a question… why not use something like the xBrowserSync extension for this?
Aside of someone could associate the data to me for my list of favorite web places, which has 100 other exposure points. Is there another use case you’re solving?