What's stopping me right now from installing Linux Mint

Idk mane. Trips perhaps. Alcohol consumption, a baby, shitty hardware... idk.

>>61838666
Security, mint is know to have been compromised multiple times, if you say that you have an older installer get rid of it right now, the mint website was hacked a few years ago and they started distributing back-doored images.

Just use Debian with a comfy DE if you don't care about systemd

Paralyzing waves of cowardice.

Your crippling depression

>>61838666
stop distro hopping

outdated software

>>61838763
It was last year. Feb 20. The webpage was hacked and the download link for the 64biit cinnamon version was altered to point to a trojanized iso sitting on a file server in Bulgaria.
If you had checked the md5sum, it wouldn't have matched.

>>61838815
Probably as outdated as ubuntu, as it uses their repositories.

Friendly reminder prolonged usage of debian may result in suicide.

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>>61838796
forgot pic

>>61838763
I remember that. I created the liveusb day before last and got paid yesterday though.
Also I'm not running a server.

>>61838788
>>61838775
That's why I can't get a girlfriend, not why I haven't installed this yet.

>>61838815
Coming from Fedora this is my biggest issue. Is it really that bad?

>>61838905
Mint won't get you a gf.
Go with gentoo or arch.

>>61838905
They have also been holding back security updates

If outdated software is a problem then Debian is a not an option, but the bleeding edge alternatives(gentoo and arch) can be a pain in the ass, give opensuse tumbleweed a try is more stable than arch but more updated than debian

I can't defend mint anymore. Cinnamon was updated this morning and cinnamon cpu usage went from near 0 to hopping around between 3 and 30 percent.

Install LMDE (mint debian edition) with openbox and get comfy.

>>61838998
I'm on Tumbleweed now, and I hate KDE as well as YaST. But I'm not sure whether I hate them as much as Arch Leenux. I might have to step off the razor's edge for a minute until Fedora cuts it out with its Waylandy growing pains.

>>61839006
I didn't even attempt to install Cinnamon on that kitchen machine so I get the beautiful MATE desktop.

>>61839057
Kek When mint went to 18.2 I downloaded the mate iso by mistake and when I booted the usb to a live session, I was pissed right off because I thought they had made and ugly mess out of cinnamon for a second.

It's far and away the most boring distro and doesn't even do anything super well.

>>61839389
It's boring when everything just works.

>>61838666
I suggest Ubuntu or Debian first, never tried Mint but I've heard it has a bit of problems, nothing should be stopping you the installer is usually pretty straight forward and pretty much the same as the Windows installer