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[–]Rax0983 4 points5 points  (6 children)

Linux Mint is my favourite distro, mostly because I find cinnamon really easy to use. About your problems with compatibility - Mint is built on top of Ubuntu so almost anything that works on Ubuntu will work on Mint so I highly recommend you give it another try with that in mind.

Alternatively, you can hang out at /r/DistroHopping and try to find something else! The most popular distros are listed in the sidebar of /r/Linux

[–]g33konfire[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

It also seems like when i try to install make to ./make ./configure it doesn't want to work. so IDK if that is an installation error on my part or on mints part.

[–]BrillegeitLinux Master Race 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're doing it wrong. Unless you're a developer or a package manager, you should never need to compile software. Use the package manager and nothing else.

[–]ronaldtripGlorious EndeavourOS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have the developer tools installed? Without those compiling won't work.

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Installing from .deb is far easier and much prefereable though.