My name is John and I talk about any number of things, what ever I might feel to be positive and uplifting. My goal is to have some fun, it's as simple as that.
I believe this some true but once you overcome the learning hurdle Debian is awesome and worth the effort. Debian is my favorite OS. Let's face it evil Microsoft is the most out of the box user friendly OS. But Debian with a little time is as good even better than windows, can be customized to your liking. I love Debian it's stable reliable and with flat packs I prefer it, and no longer have a use for Windows which is the icing on the cake. I've tried other distros and operating systems but customized Debian is by far my favorite.
@Kagara77710 күн бұрын
Thanks for this, it was good to see Brave was installed without issue. Informative. 🙂
@johanb.786915 күн бұрын
sudo apt install arc-theme && sudo apt install papirus-icon-theme because default Xfce is ugly.
@Drugvigil4 күн бұрын
Don't think so.
@jonahdave582618 күн бұрын
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on Debian 12. Debian 12 is my distro of choice and I had great fun learning how to tweak it to suite my desktop usage. Neither is there anything wrong wither prefering other distros for there out of the box setup. I'm interested to know how you get on with other distros.
@WalterPetrovic19 күн бұрын
Will it just be a straight upgrade after the Beta version, or will 22 have to be installed fresh?
@johnishappy19 күн бұрын
My understanding from their blog is that it will just be a straight up grade, no need to reinstall and there will be a upgrade path from 21.3.
@WalterPetrovic18 күн бұрын
@@johnishappy Thanks
@luigiprovencher888822 күн бұрын
How do I file a bug report?
@johnishappy22 күн бұрын
It's on their blog. blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4725
@luigiprovencher888822 күн бұрын
@@johnishappy There's nothing pre-installed that'll let me do it from there?
@rursus835422 күн бұрын
Very good tip that I can recommend to other new users. I'm an oldie and I prefer the dpkg-based distros. Xfce is memory parsimonious yet extremely configurable, so the configuration advantages you refer to is xfce. I prefer recommending Xubuntu or Linux Mint, but the user manual is a clear plus. Also I formerly used Debian, but also I dislike their installation setup, they have made root actions inacessible from a user account terminal, and that's not user freedom. And I used Linux since the late 1990:ies, starting with Slackware then turning to Debian.
@cantdance30773 күн бұрын
I had to look up the meaning of 'parsimonious'. Nice usage!
@giandujavettorello618422 күн бұрын
Great distro for old notebook 32 Bit. 😉
@johnishappy22 күн бұрын
It really is nice, for older machines but not just older machines!
@giandujavettorello618422 күн бұрын
@@johnishappy MX Linux saved my 2005 Acer Aspire 1690 32 Bit notebook, where even Linux Mint Debian Edition and debian Bookworm had failed. For me it is a distro promoted with full honors! 😉👍
@John14vs6_23 күн бұрын
Hello sir. Does it comes with snaps?
@John14vs6_23 күн бұрын
@BufordTJustice42069 awesome thanks. when will the official main Mint 22 release be. I will move my 21.3 machine to this?
@John14vs6_23 күн бұрын
@BufordTJustice42069 awesome thanks I can't wait. LINUX Mint is the best.
@chaussettes9924 күн бұрын
If you enjoy DOS so much I thought I would let you know that you can find a program in your repo called dosbox. It's a fully featured DOS emulator that is 100% compatible with old school DOS programs. I use it to play old school games like doom or mechwarrior sometimes, but you can use it for whatever you used DOS for back in the day.
@danielvanhaften577925 күн бұрын
I tried CachyOS, Zorin, Ubuntu, and Nobara as well as Mint21.3...and I have to say that Linux Mint was by far the easiest one to understand and operate for a person coming off Windows. Fixing the numerous 'printer found' messages will be nice, because that's irritating. And another thing that bothers me is if you save files to a specific directory over and over the system doesn't seem to remember that, so you have to go hunt it out again and again. Maybe I just don't understand what's going on, but the file system behavior is a little strange. Other than that, I've used it now on an MSI C61 laptop for over a month and don't miss Windows annoying pestering a bit.
@PopsSinging26 күн бұрын
I had my first problem with LM 22 Beta, 2 days ago. The cinnamon greeter disappeared after an update and it wouldn't boot back into LM until I reinstalled the cinnamon meta package (Don't remember exact name off top of my head) Just a heads up for anyone who decides to use this on bare metal like I did. It worked perfectly before that and it works perfect now that I fixed it.
@johnishappy26 күн бұрын
Yeah, boot up may be the only issue that may have reared its ugly head once.
@BitsOfTruth26 күн бұрын
Me too. I like the whole Linux Mint experience.
@johnishappy26 күн бұрын
It really has the possibility to be the Linux distribution when people think about competitive operating systems in general
@Hiram886626 күн бұрын
I have Mint on one of my my machines it's great. To paraphrase, you'd never get fired for choosing Linux Mint. If you want to try some other distros for fun, maybe some independent ones, the ones not based on. Void or Slackware maybe.
@johnishappy26 күн бұрын
I think the closer they get to something that is very regular not unlike the commercial distributions like Windows or Mac, then there's really something to promote with possibly some outside help. I know there's a lot of people that would disagree with me on that.
@garth5626 күн бұрын
mmm another bumubuntu crap video with somebody who has no clue.. Mint's just okay and I mean just okay..
@johnishappy26 күн бұрын
I can accept that. Are you an arch user?
@danielvanhaften577925 күн бұрын
I don't know why you have to be so rude. So you like another distro. Good for you. Insulting people makes me wonder....
@optionstraderman27 күн бұрын
I switched to Linux Lite many years ago after testing many different versions of linux before leaving Windblows. I have been using Linux Lite for many years now and just updated to the latest version earlier this year. It has been a pretty solid platform for me on my main PC. No regrets... I have also installed MX Linux on my laptop to play with, and it's been fine. I also have installed Peppermint OS on my wife's PC and she has been using that for many years now. Lots of options for sure. As for Linux Lite, watch out for the installation of "Snap" packages instead of normal debian packages. "Snap" packages may require you to reboot the PC before the installed programs will show up and be usable. I too am using an SSD for my boot drive and 4TB WD Red Drives for my main storage with no issues. Good luck in your journey...
@cgwworldministries8328 күн бұрын
they need to switch to KDE Plasma before I can even begin to care.
@johnishappy27 күн бұрын
I wish they had a good version of it with KDE, that is still my favorite desktop, but I'll stay with cinnamon because the mint application just works better with it. But I'm right there with you I love that KDE platform. It will function and run on it but it tends to be a little buggy
@cgwworldministries8327 күн бұрын
@@johnishappy I just switched to Arch and put up with the terminal for updates. It bugs me to no end that there isn't a single good KDE Plasma distro out there.
@eckhardlemke479328 күн бұрын
I've been a Linux Mint user since version 16, and I'm looking forward to version 22 and how it will affect me personally. I only tried out the beta version briefly as a Live session, as I don't have the time for an extensive test - on real hardware - at the moment. But one thing is certain: as soon as the final version is released, I will update. Without ifs and buts, because I know that Clement and his team have done an excellent job on this time as well.
@johnishappy27 күн бұрын
I really like the warning for unverified flat packs and if you don't switch it over to always showing that it will by default give you a verified flat pack. Really nice because sometimes I was never sure where the software was coming from and I didn't like that.
@raphaelkyembe440728 күн бұрын
Thumbnail??
@johnishappy27 күн бұрын
I don't like my thumbnails
@Little-bird-told-me28 күн бұрын
Mint gets miss labelled as a noob friendly distro, which is it blight, but no one ever said the same thing about Windows and Mac. IMHO Linux mint is one of the best distro, it is so user friendly that you forget you are in Linux. I have used every flavore Arch, fedora, Debian, but I keep going back to MINT. On the presentation side it feels slightly dated though and I personally still love Ubuntu. I am currently using a ubuntu flavor called Ubunut-SwayRemix, because i love WM's
@paulrobinson788128 күн бұрын
love linux mint have it on my daily pc and on my ageing mac pro 5,1 ive upgraded to the max and it runs great
@lillymay363228 күн бұрын
What I'd like most in a pc is privacy; to be able to use a site without enforced cookie consent.
@johnishappy28 күн бұрын
What I think people want is a private internet experience as you say. Big tech has ruined what we had at the beginning of the internet. It really was different, I wish there was a way to get that completely back again.
@rockyraab829028 күн бұрын
In my early days as a zealous Linux convert, I tried literally dozens of versions on a cheap old laptop I bought for the purpose. I have now settled on three Linux distros: I run Zorin on my disposably cheap travel machine that has no personal data on it, and MX on that "tester machine" that I use as a Debian emergency computer in the event that anything Ubuntu-based goes south. My good old daily tower is and has always been Mint. Looking forward to 22.
@johnishappy28 күн бұрын
I tried the Linux mint Debian edition but if I'm going to go that route, I do prefer MX Linux
@gregcampwriter28 күн бұрын
I do appreciate Mint's steady incremental improvements, rather than radical changes, since I depend on a stable computer and don't need up-to-date gaming capabilities and the like. And Mint's presentation continues to be the one that fits best with my expectations of how a desktop should look and operate.
@johnishappy28 күн бұрын
Spot on how I think about it too.
@Bareego28 күн бұрын
Tried the beta and loved how much faster the Software Manager is now. Had no issues whatsoever. Being based on a much newer kernel was neat. The only gripe I still have is that preinstalled software packages are not marked as such in the Software Manager, but if you want to uninstall them you'll have to go through Synaptic, and there's a chance there to bork your system. Preinstalled apps should either be optional or uninstallable through the Software Manager. With the system packages now being newer versions there's less temptation to use oversized and slow to load flatpacks. Totally agree with how Linux Mint is just the best daily driver out there, though I prefer the XFCE4 version. Most impressive was running this beta on a i7 5500U and winamp vizualizations pop on it running through bottles and it uses just 20% CPU.
@johnishappy28 күн бұрын
I too am running this on an I7 so I appreciate that newer kernel. But also trying it on a 10 year old machine, same great result.
@_dev_null_28 күн бұрын
Still to this day Love mint, although have moved on from every day use.
@johnishappy28 күн бұрын
So what's your everyday distribution now?
@_dev_null_28 күн бұрын
@@johnishappy Arch, but I kept cinnamon. Mint is still A tier distro though.
@centy6428 күн бұрын
I'm on Manjaro and I trust it enough to use it. That said I think I may be secretly hoping it breaks so I can just go straight Arch for my next one, I was too scared to do it before ha ha. Can't you just install KDE on Mint then you get the best of both worlds.
@bkThund3r28 күн бұрын
I know you tried mx linux and liked it. You should try their kde version if you want stable kde and a good distro.
@johnishappy28 күн бұрын
I did and I had some buggy problems with it, I know some people don't it must be my hardware. I'm sure it's my fault. I love the distribution it's great but that KDE version didn't really work for me
@joehooyen72528 күн бұрын
I've tried pretty much all the main stream distro's over the years & always come back to Mint. Not had any problems with the beta 22 build.I use Chrome installed v chrome website rather than the unverified flatpak. My Win 11 laptop will be Minted as so as the official 22 is out. Good vid Mr John !
@johnishappy28 күн бұрын
I think they've got a handle on it really well and it'll be exciting to see the standard stable release
@ratlinuxgamer285528 күн бұрын
back yout to you, too
@Tech_with_Loco28 күн бұрын
Did you edit video on 22?
@johnishappy28 күн бұрын
I did as a matter of fact
@matthewfuchs26028 күн бұрын
I've tried the beta, rock solid as you would come to expect from Mint.
@johnishappy28 күн бұрын
I've never really tried a beta version of a Linux distribution although I've used mint for a few years now. I'm glad I tried and I found out that it's really not a problem for what I use it for. I just really think they do a great job on the project, just the best operating system I've ever used.
@TonyBurgess196929 күн бұрын
I wan't my Linux distro to replace Windows so I can use older but still good hardware to do everyday stuff.
@johnishappy28 күн бұрын
The number one purpose of a computer is to get things done, and I like it when it's done easily without the hassles, that's Linux mint for me
@a62dave29 күн бұрын
You have your screen resolution set so high, I can’t even see what you’re talking about. Set your output to something reasonable like ~1366x768 for the demo output so we can see what the heck you’re doing on screen.
@johnishappy28 күн бұрын
Point well taken, I agree.
@larrykreuzberg310729 күн бұрын
Thank you John! I am using Ardour on Fedora 36 and had some tech issues today, which I cannot resolve - not being a tech wiz myself. I enjoy working with Ardour a lot though. Will give this a try tomorrow, looks like a great fit!
@johnishappy29 күн бұрын
Great to hear!
@centy6429 күн бұрын
I used ZorinOS for 2 years after leaving windows and have been on Manjaro for a few months now and honestly I think Manjaro has been a far simpler experience for me, I've barely touched the terminal and most small issues were resolvable in a GUI. I'm not a developer I can't code and I understand just enough to be dangerous lol. I'd happily recommend Manjaro to a new user if they were vaguely tech savvy because if it's your first experience of linux then you have the same windows things to unlearn as you do with any version of linux.
@johnishappy29 күн бұрын
Manjaro is one of the best distros out there, really stable and I really should do a really good go round with it.
@ironjadeАй бұрын
Maybe Max Headroom is due for a comeback?
@johnishappyАй бұрын
Very good, I love Max headroom. He's like 40 years ahead of his time.
@MaxumeАй бұрын
5:34 I think people are gonna be quite the opposite of well informed. Well deceived is probably more like it. If at least the past 10 years have taught us anything, it's that mainstream media don't have an honest bone in their collectivist bodies, nor do they have any shame about outright lying. Perhaps I'm just being paranoid but I think this is the dawn of propaganda at a scale the world has never seen before.
@johnishappyАй бұрын
That could also be the case if people allow themselves to be propagandized. I agree with you on the mainstream media, bunch of liars. They don't even try to hide it anymore, unless they're really that stupid. It's only one of two choices, either stupid or liars.
@AceMcCrankАй бұрын
You should really check out MX Linux KDE. Clean, simple, and still wildly customizable.
@johnishappyАй бұрын
I did and it wonked on me some.
@AceMcCrankАй бұрын
@@johnishappy Oh no! How long ago was this though? There was a new release not too long ago for all the versions of MX.
@ronnienanoz2390Ай бұрын
what happened to puppy linux? did you discuss it?
@johnishappyАй бұрын
Not yet, there's evidently a lot of Puppy users out there.
@michaelm358Ай бұрын
Agreed re Debian install. I'll compare MX XFCE vs Plasma. Will be interesting Using LMDE. Have some wifi issues. Seems slow...
@johnishappyАй бұрын
I really like certain things from various distros.
@Paruthi.618Ай бұрын
MX Linux XFCE not enough marketing
@johnishappyАй бұрын
It's a great distro for sure.
@Paruthi.618Ай бұрын
mx linux and mint as the base line
@johnishappyАй бұрын
And I toss in Kubuntu with what you just said.
@glucid4222Ай бұрын
In the 1993 movie 'Jurassic Park' Jeff Goldblum's "Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should" line rang rather prophetically. More than a dozen years ago, the Australian federal government, in its haste to up the ante in the fight against terrorism, at the recommendation of ASIO, the national intelligence and counter-intelligence directorate, approached the half-dozen or so internet service providers and asked them to record and archive all the internet traffic within Australia, to which the ISP companies turned around and told the government in no uncertain terms to go and get effed, because there simply wasn't enough data storage capacity in the entire country to do something like that for just 3 weeks, let alone for the 12 months that the government requested. Not even Google, probably the largest global data storage entity, can offer the kind of data recording and storage capacity that Microsoft had in mind with Recall, so I'm not sure that they've actually stopped to think it through at all. I think Microsoft wanted to pair up Recall together with Copilot (their version of AI) to get the kind of computing capability that would make Windows 11 more intuitive, more predictive, more personalized and more robust, to give end users the kind of targeted computing that would make it that much more indispensable and that much more reliable. What they forgot to realize though is that, with that kind of granular data recording, they'd inadvertently make personal computing that much more vulnerable and that much more intrusive and oppressive. No wonder Windows users are now absolutely aggravated by all this, completely suspicious of Microsoft's true intentions, not to mention, more determined to abandon Windows in favor of other OS platforms like Android and Linux. It turns out after all that the Linux universe didn't have to do anything else at all to get more Windows defectors.
@johnishappyАй бұрын
That quote from Jurassic Park always comes to my mind as well.
@JeffSherlockАй бұрын
You can easily disable all of this. It is not the end of the world.
@johnishappyАй бұрын
No, not the end of the world but you can see it from there.
@rockyraab8290Ай бұрын
Agree with all you said, John. Synaptic is powerful, but has to be learned because it isn't intuitive. Chrome is a mistake. BTW, version 7 is out now but I have no interest in reviewing it. I bought a "Windows Student" very cheap laptop for travel. I considered Lite for it, but even on a machine with only 4 and 64 Gb, Zorin Core runs like a cheetah. Far superior to Lite.
@johnishappyАй бұрын
I need to really spend some time with Zorin.
@Raven777777777777777Ай бұрын
The way i see it is that if i cant remember where i put my stuff then it wasnt that important in the first place. Im not fan of all this and i dont expect us to be able to avoid this kind of stuff forever but as Peter Capaldi's Doctor in Doctor Who series said "Sometimes only choices you have are the bad ones but you still have to choose".
@johnishappyАй бұрын
Hahaha...very good!
@The_DreadStormАй бұрын
My answer in short: Hell no. Haven't trusted them since 2006, and never will.
@johnishappyАй бұрын
That's about the time for me as well.
@KathrinHausermannАй бұрын
No!!! The fact it is still in the OS, there and it just takes an MS update to enable it in error....
@johnishappyАй бұрын
Who's to say they won't change a user agreement no one reads.
@KathrinHausermann8 күн бұрын
@@johnishappy They can change whatever they want. Still not trusting them.
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MX's take on xfce is excellent.
I believe this some true but once you overcome the learning hurdle Debian is awesome and worth the effort. Debian is my favorite OS. Let's face it evil Microsoft is the most out of the box user friendly OS. But Debian with a little time is as good even better than windows, can be customized to your liking. I love Debian it's stable reliable and with flat packs I prefer it, and no longer have a use for Windows which is the icing on the cake. I've tried other distros and operating systems but customized Debian is by far my favorite.
Thanks for this, it was good to see Brave was installed without issue. Informative. 🙂
sudo apt install arc-theme && sudo apt install papirus-icon-theme because default Xfce is ugly.
Don't think so.
Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on Debian 12. Debian 12 is my distro of choice and I had great fun learning how to tweak it to suite my desktop usage. Neither is there anything wrong wither prefering other distros for there out of the box setup. I'm interested to know how you get on with other distros.
Will it just be a straight upgrade after the Beta version, or will 22 have to be installed fresh?
My understanding from their blog is that it will just be a straight up grade, no need to reinstall and there will be a upgrade path from 21.3.
@@johnishappy Thanks
How do I file a bug report?
It's on their blog. blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4725
@@johnishappy There's nothing pre-installed that'll let me do it from there?
Very good tip that I can recommend to other new users. I'm an oldie and I prefer the dpkg-based distros. Xfce is memory parsimonious yet extremely configurable, so the configuration advantages you refer to is xfce. I prefer recommending Xubuntu or Linux Mint, but the user manual is a clear plus. Also I formerly used Debian, but also I dislike their installation setup, they have made root actions inacessible from a user account terminal, and that's not user freedom. And I used Linux since the late 1990:ies, starting with Slackware then turning to Debian.
I had to look up the meaning of 'parsimonious'. Nice usage!
Great distro for old notebook 32 Bit. 😉
It really is nice, for older machines but not just older machines!
@@johnishappy MX Linux saved my 2005 Acer Aspire 1690 32 Bit notebook, where even Linux Mint Debian Edition and debian Bookworm had failed. For me it is a distro promoted with full honors! 😉👍
Hello sir. Does it comes with snaps?
@BufordTJustice42069 awesome thanks. when will the official main Mint 22 release be. I will move my 21.3 machine to this?
@BufordTJustice42069 awesome thanks I can't wait. LINUX Mint is the best.
If you enjoy DOS so much I thought I would let you know that you can find a program in your repo called dosbox. It's a fully featured DOS emulator that is 100% compatible with old school DOS programs. I use it to play old school games like doom or mechwarrior sometimes, but you can use it for whatever you used DOS for back in the day.
I tried CachyOS, Zorin, Ubuntu, and Nobara as well as Mint21.3...and I have to say that Linux Mint was by far the easiest one to understand and operate for a person coming off Windows. Fixing the numerous 'printer found' messages will be nice, because that's irritating. And another thing that bothers me is if you save files to a specific directory over and over the system doesn't seem to remember that, so you have to go hunt it out again and again. Maybe I just don't understand what's going on, but the file system behavior is a little strange. Other than that, I've used it now on an MSI C61 laptop for over a month and don't miss Windows annoying pestering a bit.
I had my first problem with LM 22 Beta, 2 days ago. The cinnamon greeter disappeared after an update and it wouldn't boot back into LM until I reinstalled the cinnamon meta package (Don't remember exact name off top of my head) Just a heads up for anyone who decides to use this on bare metal like I did. It worked perfectly before that and it works perfect now that I fixed it.
Yeah, boot up may be the only issue that may have reared its ugly head once.
Me too. I like the whole Linux Mint experience.
It really has the possibility to be the Linux distribution when people think about competitive operating systems in general
I have Mint on one of my my machines it's great. To paraphrase, you'd never get fired for choosing Linux Mint. If you want to try some other distros for fun, maybe some independent ones, the ones not based on. Void or Slackware maybe.
I think the closer they get to something that is very regular not unlike the commercial distributions like Windows or Mac, then there's really something to promote with possibly some outside help. I know there's a lot of people that would disagree with me on that.
mmm another bumubuntu crap video with somebody who has no clue.. Mint's just okay and I mean just okay..
I can accept that. Are you an arch user?
I don't know why you have to be so rude. So you like another distro. Good for you. Insulting people makes me wonder....
I switched to Linux Lite many years ago after testing many different versions of linux before leaving Windblows. I have been using Linux Lite for many years now and just updated to the latest version earlier this year. It has been a pretty solid platform for me on my main PC. No regrets... I have also installed MX Linux on my laptop to play with, and it's been fine. I also have installed Peppermint OS on my wife's PC and she has been using that for many years now. Lots of options for sure. As for Linux Lite, watch out for the installation of "Snap" packages instead of normal debian packages. "Snap" packages may require you to reboot the PC before the installed programs will show up and be usable. I too am using an SSD for my boot drive and 4TB WD Red Drives for my main storage with no issues. Good luck in your journey...
they need to switch to KDE Plasma before I can even begin to care.
I wish they had a good version of it with KDE, that is still my favorite desktop, but I'll stay with cinnamon because the mint application just works better with it. But I'm right there with you I love that KDE platform. It will function and run on it but it tends to be a little buggy
@@johnishappy I just switched to Arch and put up with the terminal for updates. It bugs me to no end that there isn't a single good KDE Plasma distro out there.
I've been a Linux Mint user since version 16, and I'm looking forward to version 22 and how it will affect me personally. I only tried out the beta version briefly as a Live session, as I don't have the time for an extensive test - on real hardware - at the moment. But one thing is certain: as soon as the final version is released, I will update. Without ifs and buts, because I know that Clement and his team have done an excellent job on this time as well.
I really like the warning for unverified flat packs and if you don't switch it over to always showing that it will by default give you a verified flat pack. Really nice because sometimes I was never sure where the software was coming from and I didn't like that.
Thumbnail??
I don't like my thumbnails
Mint gets miss labelled as a noob friendly distro, which is it blight, but no one ever said the same thing about Windows and Mac. IMHO Linux mint is one of the best distro, it is so user friendly that you forget you are in Linux. I have used every flavore Arch, fedora, Debian, but I keep going back to MINT. On the presentation side it feels slightly dated though and I personally still love Ubuntu. I am currently using a ubuntu flavor called Ubunut-SwayRemix, because i love WM's
love linux mint have it on my daily pc and on my ageing mac pro 5,1 ive upgraded to the max and it runs great
What I'd like most in a pc is privacy; to be able to use a site without enforced cookie consent.
What I think people want is a private internet experience as you say. Big tech has ruined what we had at the beginning of the internet. It really was different, I wish there was a way to get that completely back again.
In my early days as a zealous Linux convert, I tried literally dozens of versions on a cheap old laptop I bought for the purpose. I have now settled on three Linux distros: I run Zorin on my disposably cheap travel machine that has no personal data on it, and MX on that "tester machine" that I use as a Debian emergency computer in the event that anything Ubuntu-based goes south. My good old daily tower is and has always been Mint. Looking forward to 22.
I tried the Linux mint Debian edition but if I'm going to go that route, I do prefer MX Linux
I do appreciate Mint's steady incremental improvements, rather than radical changes, since I depend on a stable computer and don't need up-to-date gaming capabilities and the like. And Mint's presentation continues to be the one that fits best with my expectations of how a desktop should look and operate.
Spot on how I think about it too.
Tried the beta and loved how much faster the Software Manager is now. Had no issues whatsoever. Being based on a much newer kernel was neat. The only gripe I still have is that preinstalled software packages are not marked as such in the Software Manager, but if you want to uninstall them you'll have to go through Synaptic, and there's a chance there to bork your system. Preinstalled apps should either be optional or uninstallable through the Software Manager. With the system packages now being newer versions there's less temptation to use oversized and slow to load flatpacks. Totally agree with how Linux Mint is just the best daily driver out there, though I prefer the XFCE4 version. Most impressive was running this beta on a i7 5500U and winamp vizualizations pop on it running through bottles and it uses just 20% CPU.
I too am running this on an I7 so I appreciate that newer kernel. But also trying it on a 10 year old machine, same great result.
Still to this day Love mint, although have moved on from every day use.
So what's your everyday distribution now?
@@johnishappy Arch, but I kept cinnamon. Mint is still A tier distro though.
I'm on Manjaro and I trust it enough to use it. That said I think I may be secretly hoping it breaks so I can just go straight Arch for my next one, I was too scared to do it before ha ha. Can't you just install KDE on Mint then you get the best of both worlds.
I know you tried mx linux and liked it. You should try their kde version if you want stable kde and a good distro.
I did and I had some buggy problems with it, I know some people don't it must be my hardware. I'm sure it's my fault. I love the distribution it's great but that KDE version didn't really work for me
I've tried pretty much all the main stream distro's over the years & always come back to Mint. Not had any problems with the beta 22 build.I use Chrome installed v chrome website rather than the unverified flatpak. My Win 11 laptop will be Minted as so as the official 22 is out. Good vid Mr John !
I think they've got a handle on it really well and it'll be exciting to see the standard stable release
back yout to you, too
Did you edit video on 22?
I did as a matter of fact
I've tried the beta, rock solid as you would come to expect from Mint.
I've never really tried a beta version of a Linux distribution although I've used mint for a few years now. I'm glad I tried and I found out that it's really not a problem for what I use it for. I just really think they do a great job on the project, just the best operating system I've ever used.
I wan't my Linux distro to replace Windows so I can use older but still good hardware to do everyday stuff.
The number one purpose of a computer is to get things done, and I like it when it's done easily without the hassles, that's Linux mint for me
You have your screen resolution set so high, I can’t even see what you’re talking about. Set your output to something reasonable like ~1366x768 for the demo output so we can see what the heck you’re doing on screen.
Point well taken, I agree.
Thank you John! I am using Ardour on Fedora 36 and had some tech issues today, which I cannot resolve - not being a tech wiz myself. I enjoy working with Ardour a lot though. Will give this a try tomorrow, looks like a great fit!
Great to hear!
I used ZorinOS for 2 years after leaving windows and have been on Manjaro for a few months now and honestly I think Manjaro has been a far simpler experience for me, I've barely touched the terminal and most small issues were resolvable in a GUI. I'm not a developer I can't code and I understand just enough to be dangerous lol. I'd happily recommend Manjaro to a new user if they were vaguely tech savvy because if it's your first experience of linux then you have the same windows things to unlearn as you do with any version of linux.
Manjaro is one of the best distros out there, really stable and I really should do a really good go round with it.
Maybe Max Headroom is due for a comeback?
Very good, I love Max headroom. He's like 40 years ahead of his time.
5:34 I think people are gonna be quite the opposite of well informed. Well deceived is probably more like it. If at least the past 10 years have taught us anything, it's that mainstream media don't have an honest bone in their collectivist bodies, nor do they have any shame about outright lying. Perhaps I'm just being paranoid but I think this is the dawn of propaganda at a scale the world has never seen before.
That could also be the case if people allow themselves to be propagandized. I agree with you on the mainstream media, bunch of liars. They don't even try to hide it anymore, unless they're really that stupid. It's only one of two choices, either stupid or liars.
You should really check out MX Linux KDE. Clean, simple, and still wildly customizable.
I did and it wonked on me some.
@@johnishappy Oh no! How long ago was this though? There was a new release not too long ago for all the versions of MX.
what happened to puppy linux? did you discuss it?
Not yet, there's evidently a lot of Puppy users out there.
Agreed re Debian install. I'll compare MX XFCE vs Plasma. Will be interesting Using LMDE. Have some wifi issues. Seems slow...
I really like certain things from various distros.
MX Linux XFCE not enough marketing
It's a great distro for sure.
mx linux and mint as the base line
And I toss in Kubuntu with what you just said.
In the 1993 movie 'Jurassic Park' Jeff Goldblum's "Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should" line rang rather prophetically. More than a dozen years ago, the Australian federal government, in its haste to up the ante in the fight against terrorism, at the recommendation of ASIO, the national intelligence and counter-intelligence directorate, approached the half-dozen or so internet service providers and asked them to record and archive all the internet traffic within Australia, to which the ISP companies turned around and told the government in no uncertain terms to go and get effed, because there simply wasn't enough data storage capacity in the entire country to do something like that for just 3 weeks, let alone for the 12 months that the government requested. Not even Google, probably the largest global data storage entity, can offer the kind of data recording and storage capacity that Microsoft had in mind with Recall, so I'm not sure that they've actually stopped to think it through at all. I think Microsoft wanted to pair up Recall together with Copilot (their version of AI) to get the kind of computing capability that would make Windows 11 more intuitive, more predictive, more personalized and more robust, to give end users the kind of targeted computing that would make it that much more indispensable and that much more reliable. What they forgot to realize though is that, with that kind of granular data recording, they'd inadvertently make personal computing that much more vulnerable and that much more intrusive and oppressive. No wonder Windows users are now absolutely aggravated by all this, completely suspicious of Microsoft's true intentions, not to mention, more determined to abandon Windows in favor of other OS platforms like Android and Linux. It turns out after all that the Linux universe didn't have to do anything else at all to get more Windows defectors.
That quote from Jurassic Park always comes to my mind as well.
You can easily disable all of this. It is not the end of the world.
No, not the end of the world but you can see it from there.
Agree with all you said, John. Synaptic is powerful, but has to be learned because it isn't intuitive. Chrome is a mistake. BTW, version 7 is out now but I have no interest in reviewing it. I bought a "Windows Student" very cheap laptop for travel. I considered Lite for it, but even on a machine with only 4 and 64 Gb, Zorin Core runs like a cheetah. Far superior to Lite.
I need to really spend some time with Zorin.
The way i see it is that if i cant remember where i put my stuff then it wasnt that important in the first place. Im not fan of all this and i dont expect us to be able to avoid this kind of stuff forever but as Peter Capaldi's Doctor in Doctor Who series said "Sometimes only choices you have are the bad ones but you still have to choose".
Hahaha...very good!
My answer in short: Hell no. Haven't trusted them since 2006, and never will.
That's about the time for me as well.
No!!! The fact it is still in the OS, there and it just takes an MS update to enable it in error....
Who's to say they won't change a user agreement no one reads.
@@johnishappy They can change whatever they want. Still not trusting them.