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The penguin at the top, that’s the tarifed penguin 😀 The penguin on the bottom is freeeeeeeee
If you’re a gamer like me and you play a wide range of games and vr, dual boot mint on another drive to test it. If you enjoy tinkering and learning, it’s awesome. If you want to jump in and instantly game, you won’t have a good time. I treat it like a classic car. Sometimes you want to tinker and get things running good, but you don’t want to daily drive a 69 Chevelle, unless it’s restomodded. Move slowly away from windows and bolster the linux community !
What distro would you recommend for gaming?
No NixOS? 🥺
WOOO puppy /woof !
Here is the meme template if anyone wants:
Thanks! This format is awesome!
And you have the name to boot💕
I have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-30 with Ubuntu on it. IIRC, it’s 18, and the specs don’t support upgrading it anymore with Ubuntu. I was thinking of going to Mint, but I haven’t really kept up with the various available Linux flavors, for the last few years. 2 of the 3 USBports have stopped working, but that’s a $30 part replacement. The wifi see,s really slow as well, but I’m not sure whether that’s a hardware or software issue.
It’s not European, but antiX and by extension MX Linux (as @mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works also mention) are great for lower spec computers if you want something somewhat modern (Debian packages are a little crusty, but workable).
Try MX Linux
The ‘MATE’ edition of Mint is basically Gnome 2 with a lick of paint. That’ll be worth a try.
Can we hate on Windows because of what it is, not because it’s a US company that actually claims(ed) to be an Irish company for tax reasons?
I may be wrong or outdated on the country affiliation, but an everything past windows (arguably XP) deserves hate on its own merit.
We can do both if that’s ok with you
Aha! So there are the “non-tariff barriers” coming from the penguin island! This giving away an OS for free is so unfair to poor Microsoft and Apple.
Which ones are european? I only know about linux mint and openSUSE
Mandriva OS 🇫🇷 and Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Kubuntu 🇬🇧 are also European.
If you would like to learn more:
Doesn’t matter. Just get off windows and mac
Country of origin is a bit of a fuzzy concept when we talk about Linux. For example, Linux Mint (Ireland) is based on Ubuntu (UK), which is based on Debian (Global, but founded by American). So is Linux Mint Irish, British, Global or American? Also, every Linux distribution comes with software that has been written by numerous people all around the world.
@ClassyHatter @skitazd I also contribute to Linux mint sometimes. So it’s also Dutch.
@ClassyHatter
While I generally agree, one should beware if the project is backed/owned by a company, foundation or somesuch, as it would be legally-bound to their country’s laws.
@skitazdDoes it matter? If they start doing something bad, you just switch distro.
Doesn’t that make it better, that we have an operating system that isn’t tied to any one geographical area?
Linux Mint and Zorin (not in the image sadly) are developed in Ireland!
Not spoken about enough, every chart about european digital alternatives hasnt included windows/macOS -> Linux
While I applaud the effort, the collage needs more NixOS.
didn’t mandriva close down like 10 years ago
Open Mandriva would have been better here.
People should really stop recommending mint. It will only cause people to go back to windows. Zorin is by far the most windows user friendly Linux distro that I have ever used.
Mint has far too many rough edges to be a serious suggestion for windows users.
Fedora is a product of an US company
The point is to stop sending money to the US, not to be religiously anti-american. Using Fedora doesn’t make any oligarch richer. The US trade deficit isn’t made smaller either.
Plus the fedora community is global.
Same as not every American is bad, not every American product is bad. This one is free and open source, so its ok. And its competition to Microsoft.
That’s true but at least you can review the code and they don’t collect data on you like microsoft does.
Yes it is miles better then windows, I even used it for a while, but we are in the Buy European sub.
Open Source and free products aren’t counted in boycotts because the point of a boycott is to not financially support something
There are other ways to support, such as being the beta tester for RHEL.
FOSS still doesn’t contribute to the United States economy and afaik you don’t pay to be a beta tester?
You forgot popOS
Also Nobara.
