Why the FUCK would anybody install this distro?

>>60829835
because people still recommend it.

>>60829835

worst fucking distro for security too

What besides gentoo do you recommend then?

>>60829855
>worst fucking distro for security too

No it isn't.

>>60829863
for new users pretty much any easy to use distro besides mint

for more experienced users gnu guix, slackware, arch, parabola, debian, LFS

at the end of the day pick your poison but mint is fucking cancer

>>60829863
>What besides gentoo do you recommend then?

Manjaro

>>60829835
I know right? I mean installing mint 12 in the age of glorious mint 18 is crazy.
I'm a hardcore archfag but lint is the distro I recommend to everybody. /g/ hate it because its popular.

>>60829835
I don't know why I'd install Linux Mint 12 in 2017 either, anon.

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>>60829863
anything that isn't one of those shitty distros based on other distros, maintained by incompetent devs.

This of course includes Mint and Manjaro. Don't trust anyone who recommends these to you, because they'll be back in a week making a Linux hate thread because their shitty distro broke.

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I installed Rosa yesterday. Shit just werks...or if not Google knows how to fix it.

Haters gon hate.

>>60830116

But Manjaro openrc is extremely based.

>>60830210
see you in a week, future winfag

>>60829835
I don't know! Because they've never heard of Xubuntu maybe?!

I wouldn't install Mint 12 in (current year)

I think the latest is 18 or 18.1

>>60829835
cinnamon looks like shit but is prolly the most stable, modern DE.

>>60829855
Metasploitable Linux exists.

>>60829835
what's wrong with it?

>>60829855
how so?

>>60830385
>bak86 !!gfiaVFlMiT4

>>60830116
So, name the distro that I can recommend to my friend as a first linux

>>60830210
just use arch-anywhere

>>60830385
двaчyю

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>>60829835
because noob friendly, motherfucker

>>60830577
If your friend can into computers, Arch.

>>60829835
Because it is superior to Unbuntu in every way

>>60829855
Name a better one macfag

>>60829863
Lubuntu if you are a normie, Devuan if you feel like stop being a normie

DON'T USE ARCH OR GENTOO IF YOU ARE A NORMIE

>>60830577
any *buntu can do the job for tech dumbs
ubuntu mate or kubuntu for newbies from windows 7
xubuntu for former macfags
lubuntu for oldmachine dudes and xpfags

>>60830627
Funny
>>60830651
What does normie means?

>>60830627
nice meme

>>60830691
pretty much tech illiterates

>>60830651
>normie
>>>/r9k/
>>>/pol/
>>>/v/

Nice distro for people who switch to linux cuz microsoft messed up windows. For peope who dont care about free software but want to use linux and have nearly no technical knowledge. Easy to use and good support.

>>60830759
nice meme

>>60830770
So, why they are chose mint instead of ubuntu?

>>60830771
>m-memes
The clown doing jokes here is you.

>>60830568
take it you're a mint user

>>60830791
Ubuntu was made to be so easy to use as windows.
Mint was made to be a replace for windows.

>>60830791
I recommend for such user Ubuntu, but if they already use Mint or got Problems with unity/gnome, its a fine distro. (of course they could install cinamon but target group is linux/tech noobs)

With 2Gb of ram what distro would be good to start learning, doesn't matter if breaks?....some distro that isn't fucking gentoo?

Because it's the best distro for users coming from Windows that don't want a massive learning curve and that want to ease themselves into Linux.

It's basically Baby's First Linux Distro. I don't see the problem in it.

>>60830871
Something lightweight with xfce or i3

>>60830871
Bunsenlabs.

>>60829835
Because they want Linux, but want it to be easy to use. It's especially good for getting into linux, after having used Windows for like forever.

>>60830651
I used Arch as my first distro back when I knew next to nothing about Linux and it still worked out fine. What's wrong with using it as a beginner's distro?

>>60830686
kubuntu is garbage

>>60830886
Don't act as though using any Linux distro really requires that much tech knowledge, we all know that it doesn't.

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I like Mint.

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Neckbeards just hate Mint because it brings floods of Windows newfags into their little world and because Mint is one of the few Linux distributions that literally "just work" with a bit less bloat than Ubuntu

>>60831183
Believe it or not, there are people who want to disable mouse acceleration and do other basic shit without having to edit config files.

Mint is the windows 7 of the linux world.
inb4 gentoo

>>60831305
I dislike that round outline border on the window thumbnail popup, at least you can get rid of it with a theme like arc.

>>60829863
Either Parabola gnu/linux or Trisquel.

>>60831480
Thank you Richard

Mint is good for newbies and casuals, but version 12, in 2017? WTF?

>>60830573
I appreciate the filter, thanks

>>60830599
no u


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Srsly tho, if you're looking for a DE with the perfect balance netween stability and customization cinnamon is the answer. I prefer MATE or budgie over it personally because of aesthetics, but they're not as stable as cinnamon.

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>>60830967
And I used Slackware in the 90's, still wouldn't recommend it for beginners.

>>60830707
A normalfag?

>>60829863
Ubuntu, anything else is autism

>>60830116
what distro this

>>60831386
that's what ubuntu is for

>>60831305
Pajeet resolution

>>60830651
DEVUAN hahaaahahaha its like debian but completely broken and has init

>>60830642
any other distro

>>60830886
best distro for new comers dont recommend ubuntubased shit to newcomers then they get use to nigger-get install

>>60834614
are you still in the 90s slackware is fine for anyone ./(packagename).SlackBuild and installpkg are not hard

I have kali as a main OS on my laptop but just put mint on a family members computer to stop them from buying windows ten. I made mint look as much like windows as I could but It is a pretty shitty OS. It is slow to boot and has considerable lag from time to time.

I want to delete whatever is slowing it down and try to use it but I give it another week. Looking into Arch after this. Hopefully it works well for the family though. I don't want them using winshit.

I can't fucking believe my family insists on using windows and Internet explorer.....................

Any advice on configuring mint for a smooth ride.

>>60835699
Or any other G2G distro that is secure and could be configured to look sorta like windows?

>>60834043
Which still isn't stable at all. I prefer cinnamon, but every fucking time I have something that requires booting into my Mint install for best performance or efficiency (like building an Android distro), I have to spend like 1 to 2 hours trying to find out why cinnamon is broken and falling back to safe mode and fixing it before I can move on to actually using it. First it's a driver, next time it's because I changed my monitors since the last boot, then it's some update the last time I did it that simply broke it and required purging and reinstalling, I'm just waiting for what's next.

>>60829863
Void Linux

Mint is good, only distro that is redpilled on the you know whos