Magnolia_ to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-24 days agoPeople doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?imagemessage-square352fedilinkarrow-up1383arrow-down1109
arrow-up1274arrow-down1imagePeople doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?Magnolia_ to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-24 days agomessage-square352fedilink
minus-squaren2burnslinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down9·3 days agoIf you have new hardware, why wouldn’t you use the Edge ISO?
minus-square737@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down8·3 days agowhy should you have to? it’s a really bad choice by the distro maintainers.
minus-squaremyersguy@lemmy.simpl.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·3 days agoIt’s a bad choice to have choice?
minus-squaren2burnslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoCan you explain? As a Mint user with really old hardware, I appreciate using the LTS kernel. However, I also appreciate them giving users other options.
minus-square737@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·3 days agothere is no benefit to old lts kernels on the desktop, kernel releases are always extremely stable
If you have new hardware, why wouldn’t you use the Edge ISO?
why should you have to? it’s a really bad choice by the distro maintainers.
It’s a bad choice to have choice?
Can you explain? As a Mint user with really old hardware, I appreciate using the LTS kernel. However, I also appreciate them giving users other options.
there is no benefit to old lts kernels on the desktop, kernel releases are always extremely stable