(Oct 25, 2023 04:28 AM)nodes Wrote:  I converted an old personal Windows laptop to Linux Mint (the light version) a few years ago and it was one of the easier installs, with most benefits. The laptop must've been from pre-1010 and could barely function on Windows. With Linux? Felt brand new.

One cool thing with Mint is that my non tech savvy fiance had literally 0 problems using it, navigating directories, etc. I just read another thread here about Linux being "broken and slow" and I started thinking about which distro for a personal laptop was the easiest to setup and it wasn't Ubuntu or another goto for me. It was Mint. I don't know much about the project these days, but wanted to mention it.

Have you tried mint, and what do you think of it?

(Oct 25, 2023 07:37 AM)LeetSpeed Wrote:  Yes Mint is a good linux distro to start on, ubuntu is full of stuff you don't really need compared to mint. mint is lightweight. I've installed mint at a few of my clients locations and all is well with them.

(Oct 25, 2023 09:52 AM)nodes Wrote:  Yep, exactly, I am glad to know it wasn't just luck or a one-off good time. I'll probably use it again soon on an old i3 tower.

I like Ubuntu but mostly because I'm used to it, and the server setups aren't bloated like the personal desktop versions can be, but I haven't loaded up Ubuntu on anything with a GUI in years so maybe it's different. Had an alright time working on a client server using Alma, and for PHP Apache I usually rock CentOS but that's also something I haven't done in years now too.

Have you used Mint for servers or only GUI / personal versions (or POS, etc) ?

(Oct 26, 2023 02:14 PM)Disease Wrote:  I remember Mint blowing up and being absurdly popular for quite a while. I don't feel like I hear about it nearly so much these days. Though I imagine it's still very popular for the very reasons you're enjoying it, nodes.

Nothing really ever persuaded me to drop using Fedora as my daily driver OS until WSL made switching to Windows viable. But there's absolutely a market and need for more turnkey desktop solutions like Mint in my opinion.

(Oct 27, 2023 04:56 AM)Deadhead Wrote:  Could be because they got pwned a few years back and people did not take kindly to having malware in their repos

(Oct 27, 2023 04:56 AM)Deadhead Wrote:  Could be because they got pwned a few years back and people did not take kindly to having malware in their repos

(Oct 27, 2023 06:34 AM)Disease Wrote:  Yeah, that would certainly do it.

(Oct 27, 2023 08:07 AM)nodes Wrote:  Ah, I was not aware of this... Do you know if it was a vuln with their core code, or was it a dependency that led to this? I only ask because if it's a dependency that was trusted and it was super obscure, I wouldn't want to put the blame on Mint too much - although either way, that's disappointing to hear.


Yeah that's definitely something I'll need to think about when considering Mint. For personal laptops I think it won't matter much, but definitely will have to research what happened w/ this.

(Oct 27, 2023 08:12 AM)Deadhead Wrote:  Nope. Much more serious actually, I couldn’t remember exactly what it was when I said malware in the repos. They hacked the website and replaced the ISO with a backdoored ISO.

https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/fr/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/linux-mint-website-hacked-iso-downloads-replaced-with-a-backdoor

(Dec 12, 2023 09:33 AM)Sniffles Wrote:  Nice share I am working with Linux OS in school right now!