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Doodz
Doodz via Linux • lemmy

Quick Question for which one to pick

If this question was asked before, I apologize in advance for the redundancy.

I recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu on my laptop. Still getting the hang of Ubuntu, but I see a lot of comments on different posts in which a majority of them point to using Mint instead.

Would the best recommendation, be to switch to Mint from Ubuntu?

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Nanook
Nanook friendica (DFRN)
@jherazob That's great, my experience has not gone as smoothly, I've ended up with dependency loops that in spite of my best efforts, I could just not readily resolve. Things like there is a new version of python required by the new apt, but it installed the apt before the python, so now I'm stuck with a system that has a new version of apt but old version of python, thus apt won't work to install the new python manually. I've not encountered this with Ubuntu but more than once with Mint, like I said my success rate with Mint has been around 50/50.
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lancalot
lancalot • lemmy

Important elaboration. Much appreciated.

I'm mostly oblivious of what's required to run an ISP. But you mentioned servers yourself. Do you install Linux Mint on your servers?

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Nanook
Nanook friendica (DFRN)
@lancalot Consider things like setting up mail servers and web hosting configuration, when you've got hundreds of virtual domains, when you've highly optimized apache compiled from scratch and modified to your needs, that is the kind of thing I'm talking about that is time consuming and I don't wish to do from scratch more often than is necessary.
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Nanook
Nanook friendica (DFRN)
@lancalot And for the record, I don't have anything against Mint as an OS, it's Ubuntu with some pretty GUI admin apps thrown on top. I rarely use the GUI's so updates aside it's six of one or half dozen of the other. From a command line perspective, except when things break,they are identical and admittedly the aesthetics of Mint are in my view superior.
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Doodz
Doodz • lemmy
Thank you for the reply. Nobody has recommended Arch Linux, Gentoo or LFS, yet lol. But Im happy I switched from Windows to Linux. However, Ubuntu is taking me a bit to get used to. It took me a few days to get Ubuntu to even work. Thankfully, I don't have anything on my laptop. I kept it blank for a reason to fly around and try out this OS.
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Doodz
Doodz • lemmy
Thanks for the reply, do you happen to have any recommendation to any specific tutorials for adding windows programs or how to customize further?
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Doodz
Doodz • lemmy
Thank you for the reply, luckily I kept my laptop basically blank. Nothing on there, so I can fly around the OS and check it out. I may give Mint a try, if I hate it, I'll just come back to Ubuntu. But I appreciate the indepth response.
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Doodz
Doodz • lemmy
Thanks for the reply. I have been searching around for how to further customize Ubuntu. As of right now, I have it basic. Nothing even on my latop, so I can cause some chaos and figure it out from there. What I'm finding that tutorials online are mixed. Some are great, but majority are terrible on how to actually work around the system. But what you suggested is appreciated and I will take the information.
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Doodz
Doodz • lemmy
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the information, I will mess around with Ubuntu some more. Then either eventually find a good spot to be in or I'll jump to Mint and give that a go.
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Doodz • lemmy
Thanks for the reply, you're the first to actually recommend Tumbleweed. I will give it a look. I appreciate the suggestion and information.
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