Who uses Linux Mint and why?

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I use it

People who just want things to work

Linux Mint is just Ubuntu with sane defaults, DE included (Cinnamon instead of the shitshow that is Gnome paired with buggy-ass Wayland)

Mint is a terrible distribution. Don't use it.

"Hacks your website"
"Replaces your iso with our malicious one"

It should be pointed out that Ubuntu's forums also got hacked some time ago.
So if Mint and Ubuntu are out of it, what else are you gonna recommend to someone coming over from Windows and has never used a command line in their life?

Everyone who just needs working desktop OS and dont like amazon in ubuntu.

Debian is a great distro, but Ubuntu makes it even better but Mint makes it ever bettererer.

>use Mint

The ubuntu creator must be pissed at Mint. It basically stole the entire ubuntu OS as applied pretty design to it and gets rave reviews.

New Linux users

People who don't like security or solid distributions?

My gf and my dad
Dad loves it (pretty tech illiterate but he's liked it ever since I put it on his old pc and requested it when he got a new one)
Gf seems okay with it.. she doesn't use the computer for much more than web browsing and watching youtube / netflix. I think she likes the fact that I can make little scripts that make her life easier on it... (But even though she never uses the terminal she has all the text orange on a 50% transparent background and gets mad whenever I want to change it seeing as I'm the only one who touches the terminal on her laptop)

People like me who know the bare mimimum about computers. I only learned just enough to build a working computer and install a non windows OS on it, and I mean the bare minimum because I still had problems along the way. I could probably use a less handholding distro if I wanted to but it probably wouldn't have been as easy to install or keep working the way I wanted to, I mean I still haven't bothered to learn much about linux. I've managed to get things to look and work the way I want, I've managed to install most of the things I want and I've not got (as much, probably) telemetry, spyware and whatever other undesirable shit as 'store bought' Windows and non-free software computer has on it.

That's why Solus exists, it's even easier than mint too...

mint whit xfce... Is light and stable and is only distro that automaticaly find drivers for my GPU , beside arch with revange, but I hate pacman so... He came with apps that can manage all kinds of stuff: processes, packages, ppa (i find it really useful any time i enter a unupdated ppa and didn't manage to delete it by terminal). It's comfy, customizable and well supported. Is like a windows without bad parts of windows.

Tried mind but couldn't turn off mouse acceleration and even online "fixes" only softened it. Also couldn't figure out how to control the GPU fans as it was idleing at 70 degrees...

Souls is autistic, don't fall for that meme. I tyried it to. Worst decision ever, and I wiped old configuration conviced that Sup Forums know what he says

Manjaro

I use it mostly to transfer files because Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 in some stupid way keep inflating my RAM when copying or moving files. And once it's done, the RAM won't go down.

i did use mint on my server i got a new server and went with debian honestly cant tell a difference between them they both just work and are both comfy distros

I remember installing it on my laptop when I was at uni.
I chose it because we had a complex group project and part of was easier if you were using a derivative of Debian. Mint was allegedly the 'easiest' to get into.

After that project I kept it and used it for some other assignments and general uni work and now I use it for my everyday os.

I install it on my "clients" computers. They love it.

Linux mint is the most OOTB linux system. Actually all you need is just to install driver via driver manager. Install security updates, install microaoft fonts and set swappiness and PC is ready for client. And he will probably have everything he needs already, and when he doesen't remember most of outside repos programs are compatible with mint (.deb packages).

Retards

*Debian

The system you're talking about is actually the GNU system. Linux is just a kernel used with it - simliar to Android.

Me
>Ubuntu does not support smb anymore

Noobs.
Because recommend by other noobs.

It's shite. Noobs claim it werks but it actually doesn't when you take a look under the hood.

I'm using it at work currently

this.

i do on my laptop
>easy to get drivers
>newbie friendly

Running Mint on a ThinkPad SL510, Toshiba Tecra A8, A50 and NB505. MATE desktop works great and is excellent for professionals that need to get work done across Win7 and Mac platforms as well. Just works, for people who work.

Faggots do because they're gay faggots

For those without time to fuck around with Gnome 3, "Unity" and other meme-of-the-month UI abortions, it's a beautiful thing.

Virgin neckbeards BTFO again.

Running a Linux Mint Guest in a virtual machine on a Windows Host is the only sane way to use Linux.

Debian is not really a user-friendly distro

Also: all Meltdown patches and Intel microcode updates for supported CPUs took five minutes to set up and verify in MINT - just an extra GUI step in the update manager to get the patched 4.4.0-109 kernel. Sweet!

Sure it is. It just picks it's friends wisely.

whatever anybody says - Mint is still the king when we speak about baby's first distro. It has loved by almost everybody WinXP type DE and a lot of nice easy to use tools for updates, backups, etc. Sane choice of pre-installed software is also a plus.
I've heard a lot of bad things about Mint but in my experience it has always been a very solid distro.
Sup Forums never really shilled Solus. The consensus has always been that it's a an alpha version of a decent desktop distro. Once they fix their shitty package manager - it may become an alternative for a proper mainstream distro.