• JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    Pretty much people that don’t game with hardware from the previous 5 years or so, which is a ton of people.

    My hardware just hit 5 years old and I think mint 22 was the only one with a recent enough kernel not to have breaking bugs for Navi 1 on AMD. It is not easy, straightforward, or often well compatible to upgrade the kernel and mesa on mint.

    Plus ppas are terrible. I had more things break due to ppas or bad updatws in 3 years of mint (granted it was 2014-2017) vs 7 years on arch and 6 months on Bazzite.

    Other than that it is great, and definitely familiar for beginners! Plus the forum is great!

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      1 day ago

      I’m so confused by this whole thread because I built a brand new computer with cutting edge parts just this year and installed Mint and everything just worked except the GPU, which I had to add a PPA for. Well, that and my HDR monitor isn’t supported, but AFAICT that’s pretty much true across all distorts.

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      Pretty much people that don’t game with hardware from the previous 5 years or so, which is a ton of people.

      This is me, running #LMDE on an AMD sysyem with an intergrated GPU

      I just want FF to fire up, to fcuk about in Dark table, a little work on Inkscape, a VPN that works, QBtorrent and thats about 80% of what I do.

      I have a few games on Steam that really stretch me, like Plants v Zombies and they work OOTB so that’s about it