• emb@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Year of Linux on the desktop. Why not say it? It’s been true for decades now.

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      22 days ago

      So I’ve mucked around with ubuntu… gonna switch over to linux. Ideally something more user friendly at first.

      Can someone TLDR Zorin OS vs Mint?

      For now I just want something I can swap out my main device until I have more time to finish learning ubuntu.

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        22 days ago

        Both have an Ubuntu base

        Mint develops their own desktop called Cinnamon which is like a cross between Gnome2 and windows 7 UIs. Its looks a bit bland, but some people prefer that.

        Zorin uses Gnome3, but is heavily customized to give people a choice between windows 7, windows 10 or MacOS type experiences. The UI does look a lot more modern than mint in the looks department. They also have a commercial support option.

        Both have a pretty good suite of software for customization and management.

        Personally I’m loving Bazzite, which is Fedora based with a lot of customizations for gaming and modern hardware. It’s also immutable, which makes it difficult to break.

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              17 days ago

              They’re recommending a meme-distro in a serious thread without making it clear that it’s a joke.

              In this case someone might read their comment and follow their advice, thus ending up with Nyarch as their first distro. In the future, when they run into problems, they’ll have trouble finding support because it doesn’t have a massive knowledge-base or the support of a big community behind it like all the mainstream distros do.

              It might be an obvious joke to a Linux user, but a total Linux newbie might get confused or not even recognise it as such. If this comment was posted in /c/linuxmemes or something I wouldn’t say anything, but it is not.