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The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Why it's so important to ditch Microsoft software in favor of EU alternatives (kolektiva.media)
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[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Immutable distros will likely become the standard in the future, but at the moment I think they're a poor choice for newbies since there's very little documentation around them, very few people who can help if something goes wrong, and often can introduce their own problems due to flatpak permissions that require their own specialized knowledge that a newbie won't have.

When I tried bazzite, I encountered an issue that someone else had reported on the forums months ago, which had never received a response due to how stretched thin the UBlue team are.

Mint on the other hand works fine 99% of the time, and has heaps of help resources available for it. It also strongly suggests setting up a snapshot of your system that you can rollback to if anything ever messes up, which pretty much puts it on par with bazzite in that department.

[โ€“] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

When I last tried Mint a year or so ago, the onboarding told me how to set up automatic Timeshift snapshots.

[โ€“] whatsgoingdom@rollenspiel.forum 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

True it's rather new but I've had basically the opposite experience. Mint broke a lot of stuff, couldn't get my audio working properly at all, lots of help forum posts are for old versions and fuck up your system, while bazzite just worked and I could jump straight into customization. I'm not trying to dissuade the use of mint, I just think by now there are a lot of valid alternatives.

[โ€“] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 17 hours ago

I think Mint can be a bad option if someone has newer hardware, but the onboarding process is just so butter smooth for non-techies. From what I recall of bazzite, the onboarding process for someone completely unfamiliar to Linux isn't the best.

And while Mint is bad for new hardware, Bazzite can be sort've the opposite problem. I have a laptop with switchable graphics that has massive glitches with Wayland still. Since Fedora dropped X11 support entirely, Bazzite unfortunately inherited that, making it impossible to use on my hardware. However, Mint worked with it flawlessly thanks to it still supporting X11.

The immutability aspect of Bazzite could be a massive strength for new users if they focused on their onboarding process.