Clem talks about that in the comments. What are some no hassle, Debian based, rustless distros as alternative to Mint?
I wasn’t aware that the pist was hidden/remove by myself
Why is this a problem?
Its two fold for many (not for me): Rust and MIT
Well, what about just using Debian? It’s a bit hassle, maybe, but if you have prior Linux experience, you’ll be fine.
debian is gud its just setting up anything other than systemd is a hassle there…debian and fedora would be great distros for regular users if it supported more init systems out-of-the-box
i’m shocked to see that anyone would proselytize for anything besides systemd; it feels like everyone likes that kool-aid flavor. lol
oh nah , i wasnt converting anyone to other inits …i was just sharing wut i thought of it, systemd is great for people who like it…after all its part of the FOSS ecosystem
what about just using Debian? It’s a bit hassle
What hassle? Genuinely curious.
Well, for example, upgrading between releases is done by manually editing
sources.listand some other steps, and there’s no easy tool for that. This is not difficult, exactly, but for people with little experience it’s a bit daunting. Debian in general isn’t the most new user friendly distro, in my experience. Distros like Mint and Ubuntu make the Debian experience slightly easier. Not that Debian is some esoteric system.
The comment itself:
[…] Rust-coreutils does affect us. This is something we definitely see as part of the base so even though we would prefer for coreutils not to change, we’re hoping to align with Ubuntu on this. We’re concerned with regressions. New code almost always introduces regressions. That’s a lot of new code on very important components. I was shocked to see rust-coreutils updated from 0.7 to 0.8 just days before the stable release of Ubuntu 26.04. It actually broke something important on our side. We fixed it. I’m sure Ubuntu will update it whenever new regressions are found. We’ll see.
Have anybody here tried Tuxedo OS?Forget it, same Ubuntu baseNoob question - I use Linux Mint and have for a year or so. People often have comments about switching distros like it’s super easy to do.
If I wanted to do that, how hard is it? I’ve not really had any problems with Mint… but mainly want to know in case I want to try a new distribution one day.
It’s easy or hard depending on how you did your previous installation and how much are you willing to learn.
Having / and /home in diferent partitions helps a lot but then one has to think about keeping or changing the DE of choice, keeping or changing bash, zsh, fish, etc. Some adaptation is required.
It completely depends what you use your computer for.
For example, do you game? DRM free or no, and where are they installed? On a seperate drive?
What about work stuff? Media? The larger question I’m getting at is “how much of what you do is portable, and easy to just plop on a USB stick, reinstall from the internet, or just leave on a second drive already in your desktop?”