Users of Linux Mint are welcome to ask questions and share their experiences.
>About the distro
The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.
Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions and used by millions of people.
Some of the reasons for the success of Linux Mint are:
- It works out of the box, with full multimedia support and is extremely easy to use. - It's both free of cost and open source. - It's community-driven. Users are encouraged to send feedback to the project so that their ideas can be used to improve Linux Mint. - Based on Debian and Ubuntu, it provides about 30,000 packages and one of the best software managers. - It's safe and reliable. Thanks to a conservative approach to software updates, a unique Update Manager and the robustness of its Linux architecture, Linux Mint requires very little maintenance (no regressions, no antivirus, no anti-spyware...etc).
Linux Mint is a free Linux-based operating system designed for use on desktop computers.
>Is Linux Mint suitable for individuals?
Yes, definitely. Linux Mint is designed to be comfortable and easy to use but also powerful and configurable. Everything is done to make the user experience better.
Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions and used by millions of people.
User feedback is very important to us and used to consistently improve the quality of Linux Mint.
>Is Linux Mint suitable for companies?
Yes. Linux Mint provides Long-Term Support (LTS) releases which are supported for a duration of 5 years.
>Does Linux Mint include proprietary drivers?
No. Proprietary drivers such as the ATI or nVidia drivers are easy to install but not installed by default.
>What about proprietary software?
Linux Mint does not support any political or ideological stance against any software programs or editors no matter what license they use. With that said, most if not all (depending on the edition) software used in Linux Mint is Free and Open Source. We believe in Open Source as a choice, not as a constraint. We think it makes sense to share code, to credit the technology we use, to let people help us, to allow others to build upon what we are making and to enable progress in general. We also enjoy sharing with the community, so we license our software under the GPL and the vast majority of components we use are Free and Open Source.
Ryan Wood
enjoy ur hacked website lmao
Samuel Lopez
We need to make generals for every other linux distro, then the entire board will be nothing but linux.
Joseph Barnes
NEWS
>Security notice: Meltdown and Spectre - General Advice
Locally, you should backup your personal data and set up daily system snapshots (timeshift is recommended for that).
Check for available security updates often, and apply them as they become available. In your Update Manager these are marked with a red exclamation mark.
Review any sensitive information stored online.
Stay away from 3rd party applications, proprietary in particular and do not visit websites you don’t trust on devices which haven’t been patched.
Consider securing access to your important data (your email account in particular) with 2 factor authentication.
I think we should fork mint and make new, better distro. xDD
Gabriel Morales
A human based on another human based on another human... X---D
Jason Myers
Red pill incoming.
Hudson Robinson
> fileservers hosted by theGNUProject, the group which supports the development of many of the components in theLinuxoperating system The guy who wrote this should be fired.
Adam Nguyen
fake news
also we will Make Mint Great Again
Zachary Robinson
this. most of you is bloat, for the sake of minimalism one should cut some things off
t. minimalist
Angel Young
ubuntu is comfy enough, why bother using mint?
Cooper Edwards
>grandparents are the originals, but they are obsolate and too old >parents are younger, get more stuff, have more modern looks, but too bloated >you are the youngest, everyone calls you a failure, but you just wanted to become more user-friendly and successful
Joseph Perry
love mint got it on all my computers been using since 15
still cant get my firewire sound card and digital crossovers to work after 10 years of trying
went back to windows 7, sorry guys its prettier.. .and use mint on my macbook air if i want security and do banking / mail / tor etc ...
Michael Phillips
>using an insecure frankendebian
Leo Wood
Mint? Seriously? There's a good bunch of distros better than Mint. Most Ubuntu spins are better than Mint. openSUSE is better. Arch is better. Even Manjaro is better.
Andrew Long
>that distro is derivative >muh distro is pure
unless you are slackware bsd guy sod the fuck off....
mint werks and has a tidy modern environment (cinnamon) and great default software settings and codecs
if i need something to work with normies involved and only have a usb and no internet bandwidth and to screw around nothing comes close to mint... literally got 5 windows rotted machines back from the dead at a retirement home in under an hour with no complaints
only way mint could be better if FF came with ublock and umatrix pre installed...
Ian Young
mint was the first thing that handled my 4k laptop resolution without making things look like they were intended for ants
Landon James
>Post outdated post not related to today mint made by some random Adrian
>Calls it redpill
Jason Ramirez
/thread
Hunter Reyes
Linux mint dev team decisions are better and better.
Actually these guys know major problems of linux overall and they try to reduce or remove these problems from linux mint.
Every version linux mint is stronger.
Jayden Thomas
Linux is a kernel.
David Johnson
>Mint? Seriously? There's a good bunch of distros better than Mint. Most Ubuntu spins are better than Mint. openSUSE is better. Arch is better. Even Manjaro is better.
Got Ubuntu to fiddle with for a few days, should i try another distro or stick with Ubu?
Parker Cooper
Refute every point in the image, or heck off.
Brayden Green
Lubuntu is best distro. Get over it
Asher Lopez
Ubuntu is great. Linux Mint has better / comfier desktop environments, that's all.
>Lubuntu
I love lxde as well. It's lightweight and minimal - truly a masterpiece.
Jack Moore
Well, at least Mint-chan is qt. Too bad she runs on systemd.
Nathan Hill
Nah, she is sadly gtk.
Joshua Perry
Eh? Isn't gtk for the graphics, and systemd is in the kernel?
Eli Sullivan
>Celebrities who probably use Linux Mint I start with an obvious one.
David Watson
Why does Mint 18 not display the log anymore at boot-time when pressing Alt+
Lincoln King
Linux is about choice and free as in freedom. Im free to use Damn Vulnerable Linux if i want to
Ethan Diaz
Qt is also a toolkit.
Jaxson Jenkins
bump
Christopher Wood
>tidy modern environment
Jason Wilson
Just customize it a little, user.
Justin Peterson
Too much resources used,
Even thou really comfy...
But since it had make usb stick feature when you right click on it, I used it and now I cannot install back because I do not know how to make usb stick.
Very comfy.
Dylan Parker
What are you're using now?
Christian Allen
you said mint is better than ubuntu since its more popular, so obviously, windows being more popular than any distro would make it the bestest os ever
Brayden Harris
Tbh, this is a great general for noobs. But remember noobs, linux mint is a shit distro
Thomas Flores
MOOAAARRRR
Jason Stewart
I'm not using Mint, but I'm using xUbuntu. Can anyone help me? I installed Steam on here and it doesn't load up. It shows the updating bar and everything and lets me log in, but it never boots to the program.
I tried to install Mint on my desktop (Ryzen CPU, Gigabyte motherboard) about six months ago and it failed. I kept getting
>unexpected irq trap at vector 07
errors on boot.
Is this issue fixed?
Ian Smith
out of all distros, where would linux mint be? i started using linux mint, but due to critisisms of it ive been trying other distros.
Eli Richardson
Where did you install steam from? Either from the repos or the deb from Valve should work fine on Xubuntu. Steam stores its files in .steam (which has symlinks to .local/blablabla), try deleting that folder first and try again.
Jose Campbell
literally grasping at straws: the post
Jason Stewart
I installed it from a .deb from the steam website.
Jeremiah Morris
This is the last official KDE version of Linux Mint ever; if I'm not mistaken.
RIP LINUX MINT KDE EDITION.
I'm moving to Kubuntu.
Matthew Rodriguez
here. For fuck's sake, I can't believe it took me this fucking long to get the fucking jokes. Somebody end me now, I'm too brainlet for this world.
Bentley Lopez
RIP indeed. I moved to Manjaro KDE edition
Jonathan Hill
For FUCKS sake, stop making a general thread for EVERY SINGLE SUBJECT
Ryan Flores
>- It's both free of cost and open source. How unique
Daniel Bailey
So here we go. 1. Linux mint never make blacklist. They classify every update by levels. From 1 to 3 means this update are safe so you can install. 4 are updates for important components of mint (like xorg or kernel) and mint team advises to install them 1 by 1 restarting between every instalation, so in problem you can detect which update caused problem. 5 are marked in most cases as untested, usually you can find them in testing repos called romero.
Also linux mint is more ubuntu. But also exists Linux Mint Debian Edition fully based on debian.
Mint's editor is not "xedit" but "xed" also linux mint removed mdm and uses light dm.
Licensed stuff is not inside ISO. It can be downloaded during instalation as optional option.
Bentley Miller
>you said mint is better than ubuntu since its more popular, so obviously, windows being more popular than any distro would make it the bestest os ever
More popular GNU/Linux distro, that's all. Who talks about Windows in a Linux thread anyway?!
Levi Young
>Also linux mint is more ubuntu. But also exists Linux Mint Debian Edition fully based on debian.
This. LM is not "frankendebian" - Ubuntu is.
Logan Hughes
I dont use Mint but fuck the bitches saying Mint is not good for noobs because IT IS GOOD.
Justin Cruz
This thread should have ended here.
Noah Peterson
Why should I use this instead Ubuntu or Solus with my DE of choice?
Hunter Phillips
Because of the Mint tools. It's more easier and faster to manage your system.
Nolan Adams
What's new in mint since 17.3? That's the last time I tried it and I was severely disappointed. Cinnamon was nice but not amazing.
I've been using Solus for almost a year now, would you recommend I make the switch if I'm already comfortable with my current distro?
Jaxson Ramirez
Does creating a snapshot of my system requires a lot of disk space?
Alexander Ramirez
Don't fall for the meme. Noobs recommend Mint because they don't have the knowledge see how crap Mint is.
Landon Sanchez
>Does creating a snapshot of my system requires a lot of disk space?
According to the official website of Timeshift you can set a lot of options, including the size of the snapshots.
every celebrity ever probably uses macos except bill gates
Henry Bell
Is Linus himself a celebrity? Or Stallman?
David Johnson
you realize there was a fix to that right faggot
Landon Walker
No point in switching if you're on solus
Joseph Collins
>1. Linux mint never make blacklist. They classify every update by levels. THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF MINT USERS
Colton Gonzalez
Nope.
Xavier Robinson
This person speaks sooth. This distro just works and doesn't reinvent UI wheels that aren't broken. It as secure as any other distribution.
Get Real!
Joshua Morales
Is Mint strictly for Linux beginners/casuals, or can it do well with intermediate/advanced tasks as well?
Joseph Nelson
I think we should fork YOU in the ass.
Brody Thompson
Why don' t we start with your useless head?
Henry Bailey
Retarded Gnome 3, visually unappealing.
Elijah Clark
Details or STFU.
Adam Davis
>only way mint could be better if FF came with ublock and umatrix pre installed...
That's not going to happen. Mint is full botnet and makes ad money. It's why google is taken out of FF and default search is set to yahoo.
Leo Edwards
>mint >full botnet with ad money >takes google OUT of search, not keeping it in and, fuck, just switching FF for chrome Something's not right about what you said there.
Elijah Lewis
Remember, n00bs, this is a shitposter. :)
Joshua Davis
I installed mint on an emachine in like 2013. I barely used it. I booted it up today and checked out my desktop and what not. What perk does mint have over windows? Is there anything fun I can do or is just a nice looking desktop and workspace. Thanks lads.
Jason Reed
You betcha' 25 year veteran embedded systems developer and IT pro here. If it works for you, enjoy it. I do.
I want to solve new problems with my PCs, not old ones - so I use Mint. My wife does, too.
The only thing she really noticed coming from Doze was, "where'd the C: drive go?"
She's a teacher and uses Mint professionally every day. All her apps are cross-platform to work with Macs @ school, anyway.
Hunter Foster
No one cares. Go ahead.
But this is a Mint thread.
Anthony Hall
>cant secure a website >begs us to use mint kek
Hunter Ortiz
No. No one cares. This thread is for people who use Mint.
Isaiah Jenkins
Justify your statement with facts or bugger yourself.
Jason Young
This is a Mint thread brainlet.
Ian Anderson
It's an operating system for general desktop use.
Jaxon White
It's "just" a modern operating system that works on thousands of industry-standard-architecture PCs.
It's not going to suck your dick or anything. It runs programs and stays out of your way.
John Thomas
Well I guess y'all got told.
Mason Hall
>Is Mint strictly for Linux beginners/casuals,
No.
>or can it do well with intermediate/advanced tasks as well?
It can.
Liam Perry
mint has run my samba server and HTPC reliably for the past year.
probably going to switch to XFCE from cinnamon for bloat reasons though
