I suppose it’s partly because I’m old and have built something like nine PCs for myself over the years, and the novelty of all that wore off long ago. I just want something that works.
I used to distros hop a bunch, not so much anymore.
Not really much point for me these days, arch based distros are so well documented that I can change basically anything I want without reinstalling the os, and Debian is similar for my homelab servers.
I settled years ago on a setup I like, but until that point I bounced around like a rubber ball. That said, my current setup is built on Ubuntu and I think it’s about time to switch to Debian to get rid of the corporate bullshit.
I think one of the whole reasons the mint team stick with Ubuntu is it grants them the ability to use the kernel manager which makes these things more seamless.
Sure, but that’s not what “reinstalling the OS” means in general use. I’m talking specifically about the kind of reinstall that overwrites everything on your root partition, and doing that for major updates seems to be a fairly common recommendation for certain kinds of distros; MX Linux says to do it like that, too.
Am I the only one here that uses their computer instead of fucking with it?
When I was a kid I just fucked with it and had a great time, now I’m too old for that
I mean… uh… no comment.
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Ubuntu -> Mint.
Mint works for me. So, I use Mint.
I suppose it’s partly because I’m old and have built something like nine PCs for myself over the years, and the novelty of all that wore off long ago. I just want something that works.
I’m a big fan of boring, tbh. It works. What more could I need.
Yes
I used to distros hop a bunch, not so much anymore.
Not really much point for me these days, arch based distros are so well documented that I can change basically anything I want without reinstalling the os, and Debian is similar for my homelab servers.
I settled years ago on a setup I like, but until that point I bounced around like a rubber ball. That said, my current setup is built on Ubuntu and I think it’s about time to switch to Debian to get rid of the corporate bullshit.
Yeah I’m a mint guy and I might switch to lmde, but not anytime soon
Aren’t mint users supposed to reinstall when it’s time for a major version update, anyway?
Last time I think it updated through the update manager. Might have reinstalled itself in that process.
I don’t think that’s how that works Ü
I think one of the whole reasons the mint team stick with Ubuntu is it grants them the ability to use the kernel manager which makes these things more seamless.
Sure, but that’s not what “reinstalling the OS” means in general use. I’m talking specifically about the kind of reinstall that overwrites everything on your root partition, and doing that for major updates seems to be a fairly common recommendation for certain kinds of distros; MX Linux says to do it like that, too.
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4980
You talking about like this?
Yes