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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 39 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think the onboarding and new user experience for Mint could be better, but I think there's one important thing that I think makes Mint a good intro distro: Its Ubuntu base.

If you look up guides for "linux" it usually gives instructions for Ubuntu, which usually also apply to Mint. Likewise, if you look for software downloads you tend to find Ubuntu debs.

I know flatpak fixes these issues to an extent, but I think we're not there yet.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish it shipped a newer kernel

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They have a fairly new version called Edge that ships with a newer kernel (currently 6.5).

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

6.5 is not a new kernel though. I am on 6.9. Maybe they should move the normal release to 6.5 and make edge use the latest stable kernel or something.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

some of those ubuntu instructions that come up jn search results are from as far back as the mail order ubuntu cd era and installing debs directly is a slippery slope