Linux Mint feels quirky to me. It’s an Ubuntu flavor, but not quite? Because it gets rid of a few Ubuntu things.

Yeah, you gotta have Linux compatible hardware from the start. I’ve always had Linux in dual boot for the last 25 years, so I’m used to it lol.

To be fair, it’s best to install the whole thing straight from the ISO. You might end up with missing parts if you use the desktop meta-packages.

How to install software on Windows (that I know of):

• EXE installer that you download from the website (Linux equivalent to a binary installer that you downlaod)
• MSI installer that you downlaod from the website (Linux equivalent to a .deb package I would say?)
• Zip executable installer that you download from the website (Binary installer again?)
• Standalone Zip that you download from the website (Standalone zip or tar file)
• Microsoft Store (App store)
• Chocolatey (Apt/Yum, etc)
• Winget (Apt/Yum, etc)

There’s not sandboxed applications like Flatpaks or Snaps though, which provide an extra layer of security. Which would be great in Windows, honestly.

Let me start a team for my team in Teams.

That still exists???

lol!

I’m old and I’ve been using command lines for a long time. Especially in Linux. Heck I’ve used a terminal based web browser! (Links or Lynx? I can’t remember the name.)

Transmission is the torrent client, no?

You get a lot of the same tools as Mint, such as Flatpak instead of Snap but with no Flatpak packages pre-installed. On top of this, it also pre-installs WINE 9, Google Chrome instead of Firefox, and quite a few smaller quality-of-life tools such as the Transmission BitTorrent client, a download manager, an image viewer, and more.

Google Chrome??? Why?

Aww 😞

You can modify that in the configs.

Honestly, after using Windows and Linux side-by-side for 25 years, the new Windows Terminal is the best terminal emulator they ever made.

I’m in that picture and I don’t like it.

Cool! That means that the next LTS will probably have it. I can’t wait!

Awesome! I can’t seem to find an official mirror list though. I’d love to add a server from Canada.

Well they could’ve picked a distro that’s not backed by an American comptant as a base. I mean OpenSUSE is right there. Or Debian, which is maintained by a global community with a social contact, a constitution and global guidelines, which are all about keeping Debian open, free and secure.

EU Linux is based on Fedora?

That’s disappointing.

* Sad Canadian noises *

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA same!!!

What’s “vintage” for you?

I experienced it back in the early 2000s before Yum. I used CentOS recently and it really isn’t as bad as it used to be.

I don’t know how people find themselves in dependency hell nowadays. It takes an effort to break things.