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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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People doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (31 children)

outdated mesa, monitor scaling, cinnamon in general being outdated

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (30 children)

What features were lacking from mesa or Cinnamon generally?

I have 4k 1440, 1080 monitor (120hz or higher) on Mint edge, what would I gain from switch to somethibg else?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Cinnamons compositor doesn't turn off for games (it's supposed to but has been bugged for years) which costs you fps.

Playing Alan Wake 2 at launch was only possible with the latest Mesa drivers compiled from the AUR due to some graphics features that it required.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

It doesn't just cost FPS. It straight up breaks some games that run fine on other distros.

Does it still have that feature that kills and restarts cinnamon when memory leaks start getting to be too much? I honestly had to laugh at that when that was introduced.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

No clue. Haven't used it in years. I was done when I went looking for a fix for the compositor thing and found a years-old open bug report.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

wait is THAT why my mint edge iso randomly fucking sends me back to login screen??

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