Let’s hope they can pull it off soon, XFCE really surprised me with the speed at which they transition but it’s a huge project for any DE and we are slowly getting to a point where it’s actually neccecary!

As a Gnome user I approve of this comment, some more colors would be awesome, especially if they are standartized through xdg!

When I switched from Windows definitely Cinnamon but by now it’s Gnome, it’s a little odd at first but I absolutely love the workflow!

As a Gnome user, a expansion of that background apps think that properly replaces Appindicators!

The terminal is fantastic once you roughly understand what the commands you execute do but that requires a bit of experience and it’s great to have GUI tools for certain things. Modern Linux usually covers everything a normal user should need with GUI tools but there are always edge cases where you have to do something more advanced and I feel like especially those are tough to do in a terminal for new users which is why I appreciate Mint so much! It’s been quite a few years since I switched so many things are different by now but I moved back to Windows two times myself from Kubuntu and Manjaro before I discovered Mint so I never get tired to recommend it. Good luck on your journey! ;)

It’s a fantastic distro to get started, I think the main advantage are various GUI tools for more advanced things that other distros usually require the Terminal for which can be a bit scarry at first. Elementary looks a lot more like MacOS and might be a little more familiar at first while Mint has a fairly similar layout to traditional Windows (7/10), keep in mind that nether of them is a copy tho and you will run into differences. I do think that Mint is the best beginner Distro because of those GUI tools but it can’t hurt to try both, almost all Linux distros have live boot to play with them from a USB stick first so you won’t have to actually install anything to check them out. In case you go for Mint make sure to pay attention to the welcome screen once you installed it, that guides you through a lot of stuff like configuring automatic backups and the driver manager to download potentialky missing drivers!

As someone who got started with Linux using Mint too years ago I think you got a great selection there and I wouldn’tup listen too much to the comments, big oarts of the Linux crowd on Lemmy came from Lemmy and it’s toxic and shitty so they will tell you you are wrong no matter what you do or say and recommend terribble things to newcomers! Just flash Mint Cinnamon or Elementary on a USB stick, boot them up and play around with both before you decide which you want to install. I am a Fedora Gnome user myself and as someone who probably values simplicity (mac user) Gnome could be interesting to check out too but it’s very different to anything else out there and you already got two great options to try there! :)

They are certainly cooler than you and I can tell that from three really stupid messages, you aren’t on Reddit anymore pal!

Luckily I can laugh about this pro Putin garbage, go and learn international law if you want to argue about that stuff because you are hilariously wrong there!

Crimea IS Ukrain territory according to any paty except Vladimir Putin, you can’t just “steal” parts of a country and legally pwn it! How dso you imagine they will they recapture without their ship drones, it’s a fuckinnng half island and yes he did turn it off despite his bs that he never enabled it because Ukraine already used it before. I don’t know what kind of contract they have but you are more than just a little delusional with that comment!

Well, low orbid satelites don’t really burn in space, they are designed to fall towards earth and burn up before they reach us in case they ever dtop moving, there are evwn videos that look like metrior showers but it’s acrually a bunch of Starlik satelites!

Sad that fuckface Elon disabled it above Crimea now, let’s see what area “isn’t” actually part of the war effords accroding to his infinite wisdom next time I guess!

5G is cool but absolutely horrible for that purpose, the lains it uses are able to transfer a lot of data but only over very short distances so for remote areas you are probably better off with LTE or something even weaker, it’s a tough question to answer but I think we can all agree that the answer shouldn’t be owned by a single company, it’s critical infrastrtucture for both living and military activities!

A few days ago he disabled starlink in the Crimea because he apparently doesn’t view that as part of the War and with that inderectly part of Ukraine, he claimed that he never enabled it there later on but Ukraine used it before so that’s a lie and he didn’t back down from thing stupid garbage ether! :/

I love and use Fedora but I still think Mints update manager is the best GUI implementation I ever used for updating, it has all the essentials, is easy to use and looks nice.

We never lost any “ild system” and the rebooting is probably how your distro implements updates, I use Fedora so mine often wants a reboot but that’s definitely not the norm on Linux as far as I know and I never had a device turn back on on it’s own…