Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?
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@biggen said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
Getting ready to throw Mint Cinnamon onto a laptop although Pop OS seems to be the new belle of the ball nowadays.
Pop_OS doesn't make their own desktop like Mint does. Mint's focus is making an alternative desktop environment and Mint is just the showcase OS for it. Pop_OS! is a tweaking to Ubuntu used as the default on custom hardware.
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Typing this from Mint Cinnamon. Pretty impressed with it so far. Pretty snappy interface and browsing with Chromium is good.
I haven't used Linux on a Desktop/Laptop in probably 10 years. I've only used it for servers since the late 90s. Not having to export/import bookmarks and having Google Chrome save passwords sure makes the transition easier. I'm not a power user with a lot of custom Windows applications so most of my use is on the web which is OS agnostic anyway.
I'll have to see what custom/pretty themes are out their for Cinnamon.
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@scottalanmiller said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
@biggen said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
Getting ready to throw Mint Cinnamon onto a laptop although Pop OS seems to be the new belle of the ball nowadays.
Pop_OS doesn't make their own desktop like Mint does. Mint's focus is making an alternative desktop environment and Mint is just the showcase OS for it. Pop_OS! is a tweaking to Ubuntu used as the default on custom hardware.
Cinnamon is far and away my preferred DE. I just wish that other distro's / spins would integrate it as tightly with the underlying OS as Mint does. The add/remove (install/uninstall) integration right into the main menu is convenient. I just have an extreme dislike for their policy of staying on LTS / Stable packages and package base.
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@notverypunny said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
@scottalanmiller said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
@biggen said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
Getting ready to throw Mint Cinnamon onto a laptop although Pop OS seems to be the new belle of the ball nowadays.
Pop_OS doesn't make their own desktop like Mint does. Mint's focus is making an alternative desktop environment and Mint is just the showcase OS for it. Pop_OS! is a tweaking to Ubuntu used as the default on custom hardware.
Cinnamon is far and away my preferred DE. I just wish that other distro's / spins would integrate it as tightly with the underlying OS as Mint does. The add/remove (install/uninstall) integration right into the main menu is convenient. I just have an extreme dislike for their policy of staying on LTS / Stable packages and package base.
Fedora's Cinnamon spin is pretty much as integrated as Mint.
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@scottalanmiller said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
@notverypunny said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
@scottalanmiller said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
@biggen said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
Getting ready to throw Mint Cinnamon onto a laptop although Pop OS seems to be the new belle of the ball nowadays.
Pop_OS doesn't make their own desktop like Mint does. Mint's focus is making an alternative desktop environment and Mint is just the showcase OS for it. Pop_OS! is a tweaking to Ubuntu used as the default on custom hardware.
Cinnamon is far and away my preferred DE. I just wish that other distro's / spins would integrate it as tightly with the underlying OS as Mint does. The add/remove (install/uninstall) integration right into the main menu is convenient. I just have an extreme dislike for their policy of staying on LTS / Stable packages and package base.
Fedora's Cinnamon spin is pretty much as integrated as Mint.
They are pretty much all integrated once installed. Many DEs have a software manager / software center gui now that is shortcutted.
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@Obsolesce said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
@scottalanmiller said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
@notverypunny said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
@scottalanmiller said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
@biggen said in Linux Desktop: what's the "preferred" distro?:
Getting ready to throw Mint Cinnamon onto a laptop although Pop OS seems to be the new belle of the ball nowadays.
Pop_OS doesn't make their own desktop like Mint does. Mint's focus is making an alternative desktop environment and Mint is just the showcase OS for it. Pop_OS! is a tweaking to Ubuntu used as the default on custom hardware.
Cinnamon is far and away my preferred DE. I just wish that other distro's / spins would integrate it as tightly with the underlying OS as Mint does. The add/remove (install/uninstall) integration right into the main menu is convenient. I just have an extreme dislike for their policy of staying on LTS / Stable packages and package base.
Fedora's Cinnamon spin is pretty much as integrated as Mint.
They are pretty much all integrated once installed. Many DEs have a software manager / software center gui now that is shortcutted.
Yeah, pretty much all DE have that now.
