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Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 8 months ago by catch22 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What about Arch? I was told:

mint is garbage. The only thing easier about mint or any of those "noob friendly" distros is the initial install

any time you want to do anything outside of its strict little ecosystem it becomes a massive headache

arch's wiki is unparalleled

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Mint is for people who generally don't want to do weird shit, which is most new users. If you do, it's not any harder than doing it on Ubuntu or Debian.

If you want in-depth tinkering, go with Arch. If you want newer packages than a Debian base but not necessarily much tinkering, go with Tumbleweed. You're just going to have to learn a different package manager for each.

I personally am most comfortable in an environment that has apt, and I don't change much on my systems, so Mint is nice. My servers are straight Debian

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Sounds like neckbeard bullshit honestly, Mint is just fine. Arch is "better" if you like tinkering