The problem with Ubuntu Mint is that it has many popular features for *consumers* like a store, and woth flaky PPA apps that may be poorly vetted, folks will see deficiencies in platforms without them. Manjaro will be direct competitor with Mint in the next 12 months. Manjaro is doing for Arch like the Mint Team did for Ubuntu. I guess what I would really like to see is the Mint Team dropping Ubuntu completely and focus 100% on their Debian base or migrate to a 100% Arch base. They will eventually screw everyone over! Canonical/Ubuntu is/has turned into another Microsoft. I keep telling people I would love to see the Mint Team get completely away from Ubuntu base. Jon Spoonamore wrote:I 2nd this suggestion!!!! *Debian Stable does use systemd just like Arch, but LMDE Betsy does not. You said that you tried Manjaro but didn't like it? I loved it-it was very "minty" in my opinion. It's an interesting idea, but probably not practical for now. Clem has indicated that he wants to spend his time improving Mint and its features, so I doubt he'd be willing to spend time working on an Arch base. It would take a long time and a lot of effort to create a Mint Arch edition from the current debian/ubuntu base. stable aside, Debian/Ubuntu and Arch are very different (package managers, init systems*, packaging systems.). Even that got to be too much work for the team, so they had to move to "update packs" before finally basing LMDE 2 on Debian Stable.įinally, you have to consider all the work that would be involved in moving Mint to a different base. You may remember that the original LMDE 1 was based on Debian Testing and was rolling. Having to support a rolling distro as well-especially when that rolling distro has a very different base (Arch)? Probably won't happen. Clem and Co already have their hands full supporting Mint on two very similar bases (Ubuntu and Debian). Timeshift with grub-btrfs makes a really fireproof system if an update breaks your install.I would seriously doubt it. Having snapshots you can instantly restore to is a lifesaver. That said, if you’re still worrying about stuff breaking, make sure you install Linux mint on btrfs so that you can make use of timeshift. Arch is for the person who wants their own system and wants to be the one to make it, while something like mint is for people who just want to get stuff done and not have to touch anything to have a useable experience. I needed to quickly install a distro on a USB, and I had a mint iso sitting around, and so I installed mint on the USB, and everything just worked.Īt this point I’m viewing distributions as different tools built with different approaches. When you’re really in a pinch, this is where mint comes in. I can open up my thinkpad and get straight to schoolwork. On my arch install, I set it up with pretty much stock gnome, and it just works. I can really see how u like mint so much.
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