Petition for Lmg to make a Linux channel hosted by Anthony

I feel this is Linus' Christmas gift to Anthony: let him do a Linux video.

Mint will always hold a special place in my heart. It was my very first Linux distro and really made me fall in love with the ideas of Linux and FOSS. However, I've been spoiled with KDE though and now run Neon. But when I first started my Linux journey, Mint helped me get my feet wet and will forever be one of my favorite distros of all time.

Two years ago I was deciding between Linux Mint and Zorin OS, with my only previous Linux experience being Ubuntu and Lubuntu. I decided to go with Mint and I LOVE it. I don't think I ever had a single OS installation for 2 years straight without reinstall or disc format before. I ended up dualbooting Windows 10 for PC games (Wine is usually pain to deal with) and MS Office to check my university assignments formatting before submitting them. I really do not like booting Windows up however since it's so slow on my PC after about a year of use, whereas Linux Mint runs like a dream even after two years of everyday use. I also love how intuitive and user friendly everything is. With Windows, I always had that feeling I am struggling against the OS to get hold of the PC. Like me and Windows were two separate entities trying to gain control over the desktop struggling against each other, whereas Linux Mint is like a loving father who knows you and helps you. That's how it feels to me.

Hey Anthony, would be great if you could do more Linux content in the future. Linux server could also be pretty interesting for many people (how to build a reasonable home lab without Linus' budged and so on.)

I started using Mint a year ago and can say it does everything I want it to and better than Windows 11 in most cases. It's far less bloated and far easier to customise. The only sticking point is that there can be issues playing certain games. Hoping that within a few years it'll catch up to Windows on that front, particularly as the Steam Deck gains greater traction.

I'm working on a school project where you have to build a PC using really old parts. I have the thing dual booted with Linux Mint 21.2 and Windows 10 and the speed improvement in things like boot times was incredible on mint. The PC has mechanical hard drives so Windows 10 takes forever to boot while Linux takes a manageable amount of time. It also seems the PC is even slower now since I updated from the 2015 version of Windows 10 to 22h2 for application support so I'm glad of my Linux installation.

I was kind of forced to move away from Windows to Linux on my 2-core Lenovo Thinkpad t470 because it came with Windows 10 Pro and it's not upgradeable to Windows 11. I bought it refurbished about 2 years ago. I installed Linux Mint 21.2 on it and I absolutely love it! My use for this laptop is pretty simple. No games, essentially it's my go to portable for writing, surfing the web, and access to email and my Google Drive. I love these older Thinkpad keyboards, so I'm a happy DIY guy getting things done.

"We're not saying Windows is a bad operating system--I mean, I would..." This is one of the many reasons I love Anthony. 😂

My dad uses Mint on his old Core 2/GT710 combo(ancient computer with on board that isn't even enough to play back UKposts videos at higher than 360p, GT 710 has 1080p hardware video decoding and cost £30, issue solved) and it runs smoother than Windows 10 in most instances. He's not a gamer outside of a game of Lemmings on his Amiga emulator, which he was able to locate and install himself. I should note my dad's not computer illiterate by any means, but he is 72, got out of the computing hobby in the mid '90s and has Parkinson's. The way he could glide from using Windows and hit a new OS without getting too confused is pretty great.

Mint is my daily driver, has been for awhile. Every time a cute distro catches my eye I will try it, but usually they are all window dressing or have their own issues I would have to contend with. Mint has been pretty awesome for the past couple releases.

I dual boot w10/LM21.1, & use a separate ssd for Mint. Two games I like don't roll well unless I use 10. Otherwise I'd have no need to use 11. Hoping that changes by 10's eol. One thing I would like to mention for anyone thinking about trying Mint or another Linux distro - especially if you use LibreOffice is install MS core fonts.

Been using Mint as a daily driver for like six years, its great! I haven't liked Ubuntu since they changed over to Gnome.

I'd rather have a video covering the different desktop environments or other terms often used rather than a specific distro. Still nice to see linux getting some more attention.

Mint is better than ANY windows ever produced

I've been able to tempt a number of friends over to the Linux side with Linux Mint. Great devs, great community, great out of the box experience. It's really amusing to see their astonishment when things actually work, or that they don't have to worry about the tons of annoyances that windows has. There's actually very few show-stoppers these days (notably professional graphics applications) and gaming in particular works way better than you ever thought it would. The only gripes I have with mint are their packages are frequently out of date. Not an issue if you choose to use flatpaks (as I'd recommend you do).

Anthony, Mate is an herb. They make an incredibly popular drink out of it in in Argentina which is called...mate. (pronounced MAH-tay as you correctly noted.) And as such it has a distinctive flavor. There are flavors everywhere!

I've been using Mint for about 10 years now. And It's been fantastic.

As somebody who has been using Windows since the days of MSDOS/3.1 (yes I am that old), I have tried to give Linux Mint a go a few times. I have tried it from a USB drive, dual booting it with Windows and I have also bought a Raspberry Pi in the past. The problems I have had are: 1. Trying to wrap my head around how hard drives work. The lettering/numbering/mounting etc makes no sense to me at all. 2. Trying to get both Windows and Linux to read/use a shared Hard Drive (Linux doesn't have permission to do that, Windows can't read that, this drive is read-only etc). 3. There is always something right out of the box that doesn't work with Linux (Wi-Fi, my printer etc). When I try to find out how to solve these issues, there are a million different people/websites out there that all seem to have completely different ideas and methods using a million different commands and programs. It seems impossible to get a definitive answer on ANYTHING. In the end, I always revert to sheep mode and go back to Windows. Linux might be better if you know what you are doing but sometimes ignorance is bliss, lol.

I loved Mint when I used it a few years ago. I couldn’t get my voice to not sound high-pitched/robot like though on Discord. Not sure if there was a driver issue, or it did not like my headset/mixamp. Would love to revisit it sometime though

I have Linux Mint installed on my 5yo laptop and I can safely say I don't miss Windows at all. Heck, I don't even have to say goodbye to my Windows apps. Those that don't run in WINE, run QEMU and/or VirtualBox. It's awesome!

I use WIndows, MacOS and Linux daily and they all suck in their own ways. None is really better than the other it just depents on the use case and the hardware

Great video. I dual-boot Mint and Win10. Windows for MS Office, and a couple games. Linux for Everything else. Some Linux users turn their noses up at Mint, but I've been a Linux admin for 20 years, and it's still the most simple/comfortable distro for me. And I've used a LOT of different ones...

Me first going to linux: Omg thr terminal, this is sp scary. I have to do stuff manually! Me after a few months: *Spends 8 hours to make a script that automates a simple task* *Happiest man alive*

love seeing linux topics on LMG channels. always love watching Anthony explaining and introducing tech to us, your content is almost always on point, interesting, informative, descriptive, funny and just all in all a good time!

Cinnamon mint was my first go at Linux when I built my first computer. (I was too broke for a Windows license) I enjoyed it, though def missed the thoughtless compatibility that came with Windows.

I will always love the reason my dad keeps telling me of why nobody or very few hack Linux. Cause if you do. You will have over ten thousand angry programmers and hackers coming for you.

Really love Anthony's presentation style. He has this comforting mellow tone while displaying his great knowledge. More of Anthony please!!

I remember installing Mint close to 8 years ago in my good old college days on a very modest laptop I have with 1GB Ram with windows 7 starter OS, which was extremely slow. I installed Linux mint on this guy and it was as if i have revived it. It was so snappy and fast. This video brought some good memories

I've used Mint since 2012. Good stuff!

I've been running Linux Mint on an older Dell Latitude laptop for about 7 years. It's stable, secure, and for general use an outstanding OS. Once support for Windows 7 ended I've disliked all subsequent Microsoft OS's and prefer the familiarity/Look and Feel that Linux Mint brings to the table. Looking forward to obtaining a newer PC soon with better connectivity ports (USB, Ethernet, HDMI, etc) and loading up Mint on that. I'm hoping the installer will have no problems recognizing the newer standards, I'll just have to wait and see. If anyone has experience and issues in this regard, I'd like to hear from you.

I installed Mint as daily driver 2 days ago and as a gamer and student developer i can say that it works great! Even genshin impact is now supported trough Lutris without any problems! well i had a small problem of a missing package but that was fixed with a simple "sudo apt install [package_name]" now it works smoother than when i ran it on windows! well in my case that is. Thanks Anthony! You Rock!

I've been using Mint exclusively @ home for the past ten years and I am very satisfied with it's stabilty and compatibility. I second giving Anthony his own LMG-backed Linux channel!

Yes Anthony, we know your the Linux guy! What's funny is, you sold me on it lol. Brought out my 17 year old pc, which was a BEAST back in the day, and Linux got it running like it was brand new again. It's now my home server, which is also thanks to you guys!

I love my Linux Mint XFCE laptop (apart from the 4k screen which is impossible to read). Everything else just works. The only real problem I had was figuring out how to access my Windows shared drives (it took me a while, but I finally got it to work!!)

I use mint on my PC and Laptop All versions are stable. The differences is just the Desktop Environment. If I have XFCE, but if I decide to install Cinnamon which is easy to do. I am not making my PC any less stable I have only once had an update cause issues and I suspect it had to do more with the nvidia drivers more than anything else.

Definitely need a full Playlist on how to use this for doing everything, like how we all do on Windows and MacOS. Since Steam already has almost every game being ported from, while also how good it is for editing vids for future content, and blender for 3D printing too

Mint is fantastic, not just for newbies but I have even become a mint power-user lol. You can get tiling window managers, get rid of the menu's and edit the terminal etc. It's a great and simple OS for new users and a very powerful OS capable of almost anything any other Linux distro is. I like to set all the same keyboard shortcuts in all the distros I use, that way you can smash anything out right from the get go.

I installed Linux Mint Cin on my Asus A556U laptop, with ssd as boot drive, the laptop runs really good, like REALLLLLLLY GOOD. I used to be using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but the Nvidia driver went broken out of nowhere. So far, my laptop had no issues since the day I have installed it on my laptop. LOVE IT.

Linux Mint is amazing. I used to run Windows 7, which I discontinued when Microsoft no longer had security updates. I use Mint on both my laptop and desktop and it is very reliable and 100% free. I still use Window 7 sometimes (in a virtual machine), but that is only for a few apps.

For anyone considering Mint, absolutely give it a chance; you can even just do a live boot (run it off a USB drive) for a while before you commit (be aware whatever you do won't be saved to your system in the live boot environment; also you're more likely to encounter issues in the live boot that will probably be resolved with updates once you install). I've been daily driving Mint since I built my new PC in February/March. Also daily drove it for a while a couple years back (Windows 10 in between). Had a few small issues with a couple games and a controller out of the box, but they were easy to resolve and I don't miss Windows at all anymore. Also use Ubuntu (occasionally) at work and definitely prefer Mint for my home machine for the familiar layout. The Mint community is also very friendly and helpful from my experience.

excellent review. Don't forget the LMDE (Debian based) version . I run the Mate DE on it with Xanmod kernel. It's stable and lightning fast and has all the Minty goodies!

Well done; short, honest, and clear. I use Mint (Cinnamon on desktops, Mate on my laptop) because, while I can use the more "Linux-like" distros (and have tried dozens), I like Mint's easy interface and stability.

if I could play some steam games like pubg etc with anticheat software on Mint, I would definitely switch to Mint immediately. I hope they fix these issues

After windows 7, I started using linux. Never looked back. Mint is one of my favourite ❤️.

I recently saw an unofficial flavor of Linux mint that was meant to emulate the look, feel, and experience of Windows XP. Even had a custom skin for the web browser that made it look exactly like old-school Internet Explorer that I remember from my childhood.

I’ve been using Mint XFCE for almost 2 years now and this is where I learned about the Software Manager

Just a couple of weeks ago I set up an old laptop with Mint, easy and painless install. Haven't used it for a lot yet, but it's working fine. Mostly just for playing videos and music in another room since I had the laptop in a drawer doing nothing.

Yes, thank you, Anthony. I've long held that we should stop recommending stock Ubuntu to first time users and that Linux Mint is a better choice -- primarily for its interface. I don't daily drive it myself, but I always keep a copy handy, and whenever I put together a PC for new users, I run with Mint. I put it on my parents' computers for their daily desktops, and despite their best efforts, haven't broken it yet! ;-) Dad understands it intuitively, as it has all the predictable Win 9x basics in place, and Mum -- who is completely new to computers -- just has to click the icon for her web browser and Zoom, and then close down the machine with a couple of more clicks. It doesn't yell at her, doesn't give her warning messages, it's just simple.

I bought 2 new el-cheapo laptops for Xmas 2022 as our old laptops were 10 years old and beginning to fail. Both new computers were loaded with windows 11. After stuffing around a few times re-installing windows without connecting to the internet to minimize microsoft intrusion I ended up leaving windows only on one computer while installing a duel boot of windows and linuxmint 21.2 on the other. I have been using linux almost exclusively ever since ! No crashes, no privacy concerns, no f....g problems since day one. I love it.

In November, 2022 I made the Linux switch after being an Apple guy since 1980. I bought an HP Dev One laptop. It came with PopOS! preinstalled but I found that distro had a few rough edges, so after about a week I switched to Linux Mint (LM). I subsequently distro hopped through about eight other distros before settling on three I still use regularly: KDE Neon, KDE Manjaro and LM. Coming from Mac OS X, I found Linux drive backup paradigms available to be far less intuitive and risky. I lost count of the number of times I destroyed my GRUB volume in the process, and doing so still strikes fear. Backing up Mac OS X volumes is absolutely straightforward by comparison to Linux. I tried all the Linux backup options and I found them wanting in efficiency, convenience and safety. All have serious ‘gotchas.’ Most recently dabbling with Wizard-Vicuna and other open source AI, I struggled for days trying to get oobabooga (the AI server) to install under Manjaro before giving up. ‘Wheel’ would not compile because it could not find GCC 9, whereas Manjaro has GCC 12.2.1. No problem installing oobabooga in LM, which has GCC 11. Downgrading or dual-installing GCC 9 and 12 in Manjaro is beyond my capability. Maybe the biggest reason for newbies to use use Linux Mint is the amazing online LM community. These people are incredibly empathetic and helpful. I found none of the toxicity there that plagues most social media. The bottom line is that for bleeding edge usage, one Linux distro may not be enough to get every task done. Maintaining three Linux distros side-by-side is probably not for everyone, but it works alright for me (for now). Linux has a pretty steep learning curve, and most apps don’t have up-to-date user’s guides. The Arch wiki is amazing, but prepare to spend many hours with it. The Linux community IS the user’s guide… it’s pretty special. I am happy to have mostly peeled Apple’s claws off my wrists, and not deal with the Devil named Microsoft. Linux Mint was instrumental in that journey.

I've uses everything from Slack and LFS to Ubuntu and Lindows. For general desktop use, I always find myself going back to Mint because it just works and stays out of the user's way. I've converted several grandparents that just wanted to eek another decade out of their computer before they died, and they preferred it to Windows (after creating shortcuts to and bookmarks like I did on Windows too). I still use Windows for work at a Microsoft shop, and ofc gaming, but hopefully the Steam Deck will help us get more native Linux titles.

Changed to Mint this year and absolutely loving it! So much nicer to use and I don’t feel like I’m fighting it to undo any changes I make! (Like my AMD graphics drivers goddammit!🤬🤬)

I use Cinnamon, mainly for ham radio apps, it is brilliant. I use a mini PC with a Celeron N2840 dual core @ 2.16GHz, 4 Gb ram, 128Gb SSD 6 256Gb second SSD. Brilliant and only about $130 total.

I have a Toshiba Satellite 300-L that I think I bought as brand new around 2008, and MINT works fantastic on it. Originally it used VISTA and it was great but once Windows crashed, Windows never ran to any quality since.

Thanks for your video. I bought a used 13 year old iMac from eBay in the middle of 2022 on the cheap and converted it to Linux Mint (total cost about $150.00 with shipping). It works great and it's my main computer for daily use without one problem or issue . I already owned one of these computers, editing wedding videos for 10 years on it till I retired from this business. My original iMac began slowing down and Apple refuses to update anything on it because they don't have to. I think Apple slowed down my computer quite frankly... they have been known to do this with iPhones... even the Web Browser is so slow you would swear I was using a dial up modem. I mention this about the two computers for a reason. I have identical iMacs but one is almost useless because of Apple and the other one is run on Linux Mint and is very fast... everything works... so its the software and not the hardware. Even though this hardware is old, Linux Mint performs like a race car on it! So a few lessons to be learned from this... the big guys are not your friends yet Linux Mint is free. its stable, fast, with free, usable software and the people behind the scenes give a crap.... and oh yes.... don't put a working older machine out to pasture as it may actually be a great piece of hardware if you install Linux Mint on it.

Office 365 or whatever its called now has alternatives on linux. And they are even quite good. Only Office paired with nextcloud for example is an amazing bundle.

MMy first distro was Ubuntu and to start off with I liked it then they re-designed the interface and I didn't. Tried Mint and absolutely loved it. Used it no problem for a loooong time until HandBrake started to play up (crashing) and I decided it was time to have a crack at another OS. Tried Peppermint and really liked it and have now settled on Manjaro KDE Plasma. Absolutely love it but if I had to choose another, I'd go back to Mint in a heartbeat.

I love the way that Anthony explains Linux. He taught me how to start with Linux, and I am so greatful that he is so good at talking about Linux

Why does it look like it is from 10 years ago. Aren't Linux devs not able to make actually modern GUIs? They even use such an old school forum.

Since these flavors as stated in the Video are just the Graphics User Interface. You can use and install any GUI in Linux Mint after the install. Personally, I use the Debian Version or LMDE with the Cinnamon Desktop as my daily computer.

About a year ago, I decided to install Linux Mint on an old laptop to be used as a home theater PC (HTPC). It's been great ever since. No more "smart TV" app limitations, plus I can also game and run productivity apps on it. I've been thinking about switching my "main rig" desktop to Mint, but there are some critical line-of-business apps that I struggle to find decent alternatives to; not to mention it's my primary gaming machine as well.

Honestly, I really like the direction that Linux and Ubuntu are going. Especially the fact that they finally start to focus more and more on the mainstream user instead of the developer. The very nice desktop in the latest Ubuntu release is also a massive improvement imho.

I've been running Xubuntu for about 8 years and it's been mostly a great experience so far. And in the last 2-3 years, I've only had to use the command line once every 3-5 months, and usually for very minor stuff. Also, philosophically, the way I see it, open source software has already won.

As a long time user of Ubuntu, I have to say that recent versions have been extremely buggy especially with audio processing applications. I've been using endeavoros which isn't for the faint of heart but at least audio is pretty reliable out of the box.

i live in the Philippines (at the third world country parts.) many Students and businesses here use Linux not by choice but because of survival. old broken computers are not thrown away here, they're restored. we're grateful for Linux for resurrecting our computers that other countries just throw out. 🙏

I'd really like to see a small video series from Anthony on the different versions on Linux. I'm still using Windows 10 hoping that 12 will be better but I doubt it.

Good summary. I started using Ubuntu 13 years ago but when they decided to switch to the Unity desktop, things went awry and was now dealing with a buggy distro. I had experimented with LM about 10 years ago but found it a little buggy and still needed a bit of work to get it up to speed. I experimented with other distros in the meantime until I checked out LM again and found it had greatly improved. I'm presently dual booting with Windows 10 (not 11) - there is one Windows app that I still need otherwise would have ditched Windows a long time ago. There are still problems trying to run Windows apps on LM using Wine, Play on Linux etc but prefer to dual boot instead. If anyone out there wants to know how to dual boot, there's plenty of help available online. I've never tried any anti-virus software on LM and have never had any issues. I use it for my everyday needs and can safely say it has evolved into a polished and well maintained distro.

ty I recently ordered a mini with the Ryzen 5600 shipset then i noticed the 'bare bones' tag. if my cancel order doesn't go thru i will be looking for a SSD , ram , and most importantly an os. I used to build pcs on the side back in the stone age but the last 10-12 years have been using only android so even the newer windows are new to me. I always was curious about linux but used to be you had to be very well schooled in pcs to know how to program and use linux. TY for the info

last year I got a computer with cinnamon mint instaled, and, man I loved how fast it was, especially when I was testing my code, but unfortunately I has to format and re-install windows because of 1: a boot error was happening and 2: I also needed to use some of the microsoft office apps with don't work even if it is the online version. but still, mint and bodhi have a special place in my heart

Thanks for the Linux popularization! I'm a Linux nerd using it for work, absolutely love it. But not sure if it is ready to be a gaming platform. Steam did an excellent job with proton and steam, but it's always roulette when you run a game that is not tested by Valve.

Linux mint has been my favorite distro. It's simple, fast, and gives me access to Ubuntu programs without actually running Ubuntu. I'd say fedora with gnome is probably 2nd place. It's also really nice especially for a tablet. Good for touch screens. I wish they would have made gnome an option for the steam deck actually.

I've dabbled with some distros (mint and ubuntuu included) but always go back on Windows. I'd prefer to switch, but I have too much familiarity with so many programs, don't trust Wine to run most programs, and the big one for me is my music recording. I use FL Studio and definitely couldn't manage the headache of using it within Wine.

I use Mint for my laptop and love it. It take a little getting used to if you’re brand new but a few quick internet searches and you’re on your way. I am going to be recommending Mint to a lot of friends when Win 10 support ends for sure.

Zorin is definitely my favourite "easy" linux, based on Ubuntu. It's visually across between MacOS and Windows - and it's gorgeous.

For newbies (and grannies) moving over from Windows, Mint does a nice job in telling you what all those oddly-named programs in the menu are. By default, descriptions are shown in the menu, so they'll know that "Celluloid" lets them "Play movies or videos", with a lot of things in the menu just having descriptive names, such as "Text Editor" (which leads to the xed text editor).

i stared using linux mint before 1 year and now i can't replace it

Been using Mint as my daily driver for the past 18 months, love it. I still have a Windows laptop but the only thing I use it for is Amazon prime videos as they won't let me watch movies in HD on anything other than Windows for some stupid reason. What frustrates me the most is sitting down to watch a film and it decides it wants to update for the next 40 minutes. This was the main reason to switch away from Windows. I was on my way out to work but needed to quickly order something online, nope, you got to wait for the update and be late for work. Happened way too many times I rage quit.

so out of curiosity i checked how linux mint looks like now, and i am just really impressed it stood the test of time. it was my fave distro before (although, i had no other practical reason to use linux other than its a windows alternative + it looked nice)

So cool ! I would've enjoyed a mention of more native linux softwares, such as libre office, keepassxc firefox and so on.

I recently installed the Cinnamon Desktop from Linux Mint and it's brilliant! Beautiful, fast, easy to use. I love it.

Let’s have a world without borders and walls! We could start by losing windows and gates…

Mint Cinnamon is my daily driver, and I installed Mint MATE on a low-spec computer that struggled with Windows, but now it performs so much better.

I strongly considered Mint when choosing a distro to dual-boot with Windows, but I ended up deciding on Debian instead. So far, after about 25 days, it's been good. I realized that the text editor I got with my desktop environment (Kate and KDE respectively) is better for coding in Ruby than VS Code is. It also boots noticeably faster than Windows, and I have both Debian and Windows 10 on separate M.2 SSDs. Yesterday I finally decided to set up themes, and today I made a desktop background. The only thing I have to use Windows 10 for is some programming homework involving C# applications targeted exclusively towards Windows.

Game compatibility changes so much as Proton and Lutris advance. Y'all really need to give it another look.

Thank you Anthony! You just made my personal mission as a mint evangelist much easier. Another benefit can be "lower support costs". My elderly mother has been using it for many years and her tech calls dropped by 90% when I switched her away from windoze.

I'm using Linux Mint for several years now on my Dell XPS13 (2013 model) laptop and it still works very good. I even did an upgrade to "Vera" this week without problems. Linux is suitable very every day computer use, back in the day (1998) when I started using Red Hat Linux was something different, just to get it installed.

My old laptop from when I was in high school had Windows 7. When support ended for 7 I decided to try Linux to breath some new life into this old machine. It's not a gaming laptop and just for general web surfing. Linux Mint ended up being the OS I used and I overall liked it. It was very similar to Windows 7 in how it worked.

Last week on a Dell Demsions E521 with older Athlon duo core 3600 processor installed Linux 21.1 Cinnamon. While running through the installation procedure of personal set up the desktop ran slow. Picked up 4 1GB 800 Mhz RAM to replace older 4 500mbs, computer now runs fairly well on this one operating system desktop computer. In the past have had problems on multi operating systems where the Mint boot loader does not pick up and include Fedora operating systems and erases within the Fedora boot directory the boot loader files of that operating system upon installation or upgrade to later version. Never had any problems with Mint erasing or missing any Windows operating system, Debian, AV Linux, or Ubuntu.

tbh, Linux Mint was my first linux distro ( around cca 10+ years ago) i think that Helena was the LM distro name then, the whole procedure was neat and intuitive. I really like the whole direction of the Linux Mint development for casual users, But don't forget the Debian direction, even more "robuster" approach. keep up the good work Anthony

Made my old XP machine w/E8400 + 8Gb ram + 5 Tb hdds dual boot into Mint Mate. Looks nice and runs smoothly but other than web browsing I really haven't found use for it.

Mint is a good start to Linux. Once you get comfortable with how things work, you can take the step towards something like Fedora, and maybe after that start thinking about Arch.

I bought a new laptop for class (for programming and server deployment) and was pretty tired from past years of how bad the experience was on Windows when it came to running services and creating virtual machines (VirtualBox sucks balls, and I don't even want to mention Windows server) so I decided to install Mint and see how it would go. For now, I can do everything my classmates and teacher are doing in windows and most of the time I outperform them and run into fewer problems. Not everything is beautiful tho, I suffered learning to use a Linux-based OS, I spent almost one complete summer a year ago learning how to use it and tweaking with the command line, but I really enjoy the Linux experience, being able to literally change anything you want on you OS is something you learn to appreciate.

I used it for few years and i liked it but i moved to rolling release distro to get more updates. 🙂

Linux Mint is pleasantly useable. I keep an older laptop near my work bench on a desk in my home workshop running Linux Mint. I have grown accustomed to being able to opening up the older Toshiba, download updates and browsing/email, even shopping parts and equipment, research, do everything I need to and the OS runs reliably even after a week or two in hibernation. No nag screens, free apps/software (most common stuff) and it's free. After a little research and bumbling I have it networked with my Win 10 PCs. I also have USB thumb drives and attached storage that works right out of the box with it. It's really good. Do it.

If you want to use the X-Fi Titanium and get a lot of static, disable the time scheduler in the driver. Solved it for me.

When I upgraded my computer, I didn't feel like giving up Windows 7 for 10 nor 11, so I went to Linux Mint. One of the best decisions I ever made. Still keeping a Windows 10 laptop for some of the rare stuffs not even Wine nor Proton can help with, otherwise it's sleeping the rest of the time. Disclaimer though: I'm an "amateur tech-savvy". I wouldn't suggest giving it to some relatives who are even struggling to tell the difference between "Google" (the search engine) and a web browser.

While I always prefered to use windows for some reasons, when I had to use Linux for my studies or for others things, I've gone for Mint and it was a pretty good one that I would recommend if someone want to switch to Linux!

I mean Blender is kind of a substitute to Maya or Max haha, but I'll be first to admit it deserves its hard-earned place in the industry nowadays!

Mint IS better than Windows, and I was able to ditch windows almost completely. I got through a degree program using only Mint, and sometimes Knoppix, I love Knoppix too. I only used Windows 1 time, when they absolutely made us use it, for some test they made us take, that was programmed in Windows or something, called the ETS test. Mint rules! I like the XFCE version, because it is compatible with Compiz, which has desktop animations, something Windows definitely does not have. And there are a few Windows programs I absolutely can not do without - Notepad++ for example - and it runs great in Wine on Mint! No registry files, super easy scripting, no messages from your computer that say 'Windows is updating, do not turn off your computer' That message was what made me switch. Windows is a complete travesty. Mint is AWESOME!!! Thanks for the great video about it!!!