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Why Mint and Ubuntu? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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Keep noticing that when taking about Linux distro recommendations (on Reddit) users recommend Mint and Ubuntu for gaming.

Now don't get me wrong, they're great distros and with a bit of work are great for games, but I feel like theres better recommendations for new users looking into getting into gaming on linux.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    not so much as Mint being the “best way”, but Mint being a safe, friendly starting point – once you get your feet wet, you can start looking around at the other options (which can be pretty overwhelming initially) – and just as a lot of people use Mint as a jumping off point, a lot of people also stay with Mint

    and yes, despite distro-hopping being a running joke, it exists because Linux distros make it relatively easy to do

    the biggest change to keep an eye on is the development of atomic (“immutable”) distros – anything that makes it harder to bork your system and easier to recover afterwards (including recovering all of your configurations and customizations) is getting a lot of attention

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    that OS turned me off unless it has substantially improved since then

    That was my experience with Pop!_OS too. I tried switching to it after finding that Ubuntu has a lot of bloat.

    In the end, I went back to Ubuntu, because it works right out of the box - even with my Nvidia graphics card! (only from 20.04 onwards; 18.04 and older versions were problematic)

    When I reinstalled Ubuntu, I chose the custom / minimal installation option, and that cut out most of the bloat.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I'm personally not a fan of Mint - tried it for a month or so. My impression is that if it works with your muscle memory, it works well. If not... then even Windows ends up more user-friendly.

    I'm particularly not a fan of the "start menu" because you don't really get a lot of space for pinned apps, and there's no way to really modify that. I ended up liking KDE quite a lot more. It takes a bit longer to set it up to what you like, but its customization means that while there's a bigger upfront cost to setup, it's much smoother once it is set up.

    I'm using KDE Neon (Ubuntu + KDE), which I'm pretty happy with. But I'm also debating whether to switch to Kubuntu (also Ubuntu + KDE for some reason)

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