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?

@Magnolia_@lemmy.ca · edit-2 10 months ago

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?

@737@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 months ago

mesa is outdated by default, not supporting rx 7000 cards unless you use the edge iso.

@n2burns@lemmy.ca · 10 months ago

If you have new hardware, why wouldn’t you use the Edge ISO?

@737@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 months ago

why should you have to? it’s a really bad choice by the distro maintainers.

@n2burns@lemmy.ca · 10 months ago

Can you explain? As a Mint user with really old hardware, I appreciate using the LTS kernel. However, I also appreciate them giving users other options.

@737@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 months ago

there is no benefit to old lts kernels on the desktop, kernel releases are always extremely stable