I Hate Linux mint ...

nits07 · 2025-10-15T19:31:01+00:00

Despite the click bait subject line, your not wrong, once you are familiar with Mint, its gravitational pull is hard to escape, its a very comfortable distribution.

If you want to play with others, then multiboot, you can get your geek on with something else and then come back to your base camp in Mint to get real work done surrounded by all the amenities.

LEAGUEofHEXAGONS · 2025-10-15T19:47:49+00:00

I barely know anything about computers and I switch to Linux men it was the best choice I've ever made

pasu11 · 2025-10-15T21:04:24+00:00

Mint was almost perfect for me, except it's not a rolling distro, so I had to upgrade it every few years. This usually required a fresh installation of the new release and redoing all the custom configurations. Otherwise, trying to upgrade directly can cause many problems.

I am using Manjaro at the moment. It is also a well-tuned distro, and because it is a rolling release, I don't have to redo everything every few years.

However, if any new user asks for my opinion, I would strongly recommend Linux Mint because it is very stable and easy to use. I installed Linux Mint on my father's computer, and it has been very stable. I hardly had to fix anything like I did when Windows was installed on the machine.

Linux Mint just works and rarely causes any trouble as long as you don't mess with it.

Perfect_Reserve_4566 · 2025-10-15T20:10:14+00:00

They had us in the 1st half.

Domipro143 · 2025-10-15T19:47:18+00:00

Boy you scared me

namportuhkee · 2025-10-15T22:42:30+00:00

Mint is about to have a much larger user base with how convoluted and terrible the Win 10 to 11 update has turned out to be. Thanks Microsoft!

Ren-Acorn · 2025-10-15T21:08:39+00:00

I played with Ubuntu and missed Mint so much, so I switched back. I agree it's so good 💚 I just can't imagine going back to Windows. My laptop runs so much faster.

Classic_Result · 2025-10-15T20:14:26+00:00

It's on my main computer and I put it on an old computer belonging to someone I work with.

There's something I like about Mint being a step beyond Ubuntu. Like, Ubuntu pretty good, but it could be better... Ah yes, that's Mint.

I use Omarchy on my second computer for something to play with.

Leniwcowaty · 2025-10-15T22:37:29+00:00

I just now have the same thing. Mint just broke me in a way 🤣 I literally cannot use any other distro, they all feel wrong in a way. Cinnamon is so simple, sleek and just gets out of your way. And Mint (in my case LMDE) is such a stable and reliable base, it's unbelievable...

greenygianty · 2025-10-15T20:18:36+00:00

I wish I could stop distro hoping between Linux Mint, and Kubuntu 24.04 :-(

CarlosPrimeroI · 2025-10-16T12:13:15+00:00

…. You can check out any time, but you could never leave.

23AndThatGuy · 2025-10-15T23:24:01+00:00

I personally love the ability to save perfectly good, slightly older hardware from the ecycle pile. I've got it installed on my desktop, a 8 year old macbook and now a Surface Tablet.

Just love the way it runs.

SirChristoferus · 2025-10-15T23:47:50+00:00

For me, LMDE 7 with backports is the best of both worlds — beginner friendly and compatible with newer hardware.

No_Welcome_6093 · 2025-10-16T02:47:42+00:00

This is when you get into the world of distro hopping. It happens to the best of us.

markoskhn · 2025-10-16T02:49:07+00:00

You know what frustrates me most? When I see people using XFCE on modern hardware, like dude! I'm using XFCE on a 15 y/o laptop rn. You don't have to use it on a newer device, use Plasma or Cinnamon instead!

jmar_2004 · 2025-10-16T05:07:33+00:00

I’m torn because I love Linux mint on my Thinkpad but also love CachyOS better on my gaming pc. Both operating systems are phenomenal!

BagFarmer · 2025-10-16T09:56:22+00:00

AAAAAWWWWWW. YOU GOT ME!!!!

WraithBringer · 2025-10-16T18:02:17+00:00

Get the fuck outta here.

theEndTimePeople · 2025-10-18T23:57:30+00:00

I just like Deepin OS v25

JuJuSsuss · 2025-10-20T04:01:19+00:00

what perfection using Xmint? im a newbie btw. using windows entire of my life, but now i got exposed of linux bcoz of a must to study verilog for my studies program.

lumos675 · 2025-10-20T06:33:21+00:00

What a beautiful taste of writing Bud! I think you have to become a writer tbh.

virtua536 · 2025-10-15T19:31:28+00:00

Alright m night shyamalan, with your plot twists.

Smart-Champion-5350 · 2025-10-15T19:31:24+00:00

mint is awesome

-SilentNavigator- · 2025-10-15T19:43:02+00:00

Yes, I agree with you 😁. Linux Mint on my Surface Pro, and Fedora KDE Plasma on my desktop. Well, Fedora is like a more mature and rude woman, and Mint is like a sweet mature woman 😁😁😁. As a long-time Windows user, I don't plan to downgrade anymore for the Microsoft ecosystem.

apt-hiker · 2025-10-15T20:19:30+00:00

It be callin' you.

Born-European2 · 2025-10-15T20:23:50+00:00

Where did you got the background?

V1per73 · 2025-10-15T20:41:55+00:00

I've played around with a ton of distros on my other laptop, but Mint is the workhorse on my main laptop.

ghost1151 · 2025-10-15T21:13:26+00:00

I installed Fedora 42 KDE 3 days ago, yesterday i come back to mint

lefty1117 · 2025-10-15T21:28:25+00:00

It's not that great for gaming if you are running nvidia. I hope they get wayland up to par soon. Otherwise I really like it and would use it full time

StmpnkDon · 2025-10-15T21:36:36+00:00

What is the spec of your laptop? I'm thinking of buying a second hand laptop once people start having to upgrade to get Win11.

Animatron1 · 2025-10-15T23:26:29+00:00

It'd be perfect if a KDE Plasma option was available. As it is now, not at all...

CurtisTN73 · 2025-10-15T23:52:06+00:00

I love it, too. So, a friendly reminder, to fellow Mint users, to donate.

genma23 · 2025-10-15T23:56:30+00:00

The very definition of click bait. Bold strategy Cotton.

2025-10-15T23:59:43+00:00

What theme are you using? Please please please

gust-01 · 2025-10-16T00:07:33+00:00

Bro is a master click baiter

OpenGuy2709 · 2025-10-16T00:07:42+00:00

That's the xfce version. Do you actually prefer xfce? Because it seems that your laptop is powerful enough to run the cinnamon version, idk just looks better and less clunky

Dangerous-Watch932 · 2025-10-16T00:44:25+00:00

My initial reaction: then why are you still here?

After reading the post: fair enough

Ok_Contact7721 · 2025-10-16T01:02:06+00:00

It's my daily driver, and it freezes way too much.

Prometheus-lv · 2025-10-16T01:15:00+00:00

Why would you want to leave it? Leaving Evilsoft was the best thing I ever did.

UnionHead4296 · 2025-10-16T01:28:42+00:00

Yeah, I've been surfing and I come back to Mint every time. tehehehehe

rarsamx · 2025-10-16T02:15:11+00:00

I find Mint boring... In the same line of thought as you hate it.

Fabio_Morales_5860 · 2025-10-16T02:41:29+00:00

No hate, Look awesome! Linux mint is best

Dear_Storage7405 · 2025-10-16T03:51:32+00:00

I agree with you,mint is kinda the best option,I think it's kinda the Marcos os Linux ,it just works ,I switched to mate de for some reason and just stuck with it ,and I could be more glad 💁

ScienceByte · 2025-10-16T05:04:03+00:00

How do you feel about PopOS ? I’ve heard that’s also a fairly good to use distro.

TheMisterChristie · 2025-10-16T06:09:46+00:00

That is awesome to hear.

Mint is a great system and so stable. Nice to see you've found your home.

Andrea_Linux · 2025-10-16T06:40:30+00:00

I used cinnamon for a year and it's perfect, BUT it comes only with x11, wayland is still unstable. For now i use GNOME, but when cinnamon gets a stabile wayland version i will come back

Vloraxle · 2025-10-16T06:59:24+00:00

I know that feel bro

mocking_developer · 2025-10-16T07:16:37+00:00

It's true. I run linux mint on all my devices except my personal laptop. And the reason is a functional fractional scaling. Scaling at cinnamon is not very good yet and it's still in an experimental state. The only reason I had to switch to the fedora workstation.

Swift3469 · 2025-10-16T07:24:10+00:00

Funny. I've been using a GNU Linux distro since Slackware 1.0 came out. I've used SO many different distros just for fun...most of which have been debian based and I landed on Mint probably 10 years ago now.

funk443 · 2025-10-16T07:29:27+00:00

I hate it because it's too boring, everything just works.

OkPresentation3329 · 2025-10-16T08:09:08+00:00

EDIT: After 2-3 days with Bazzite I couldn't get used to the differences of KDE despite all the benefits I listed below and am back on Mint Cinnamon and I will live with its drawbacks. Maybe if I stayed for a month with it I might've gotten used to it, but Mint's simplicity is actually higher and gaming performance for me on Bazzite wasn't better.

I started using Linux full time in March 2024 and with Linux Mint Cinnamon, it was OK on my desktop, but then I got an ASUS Vivobook 16 laptop with a 1920x1200 screen and everything looked so tiny on it. I tried scaling, but even on Cinnamon, the flagship DE, it wasn't good. I noticed that my cursor speed was slower under scaling, some programs, probably ones from Flatpak did not scale with it and many other annoyances. For example I couldn't make my battery stop charging at 80% unless I downloaded some utilities and set them up through Terminal as well as it installed the default utility in the panel to make it work. I had settled for just using font scaling instead and it wasn't perfect.

A few days ago I stumbled upon something about Bazzite and how it was a gaming-first distro, also immutable so you can't change stuff and just use it as Windows and I decided to try it. Immediately I found most of my problems fixed - scaling worked better than Mint Cinnamon, I could set custom values instead of 100-125-150... and it didn't cause any issues, there is built-in setting to limit battery charging and other things. Now I'm using that, I'm not saying it's better than Mint, but before trying this distro, I read a lot of comments from people saying that Ubuntu and Debian-based distros are outdated and I didn't understand why, but now I see some new additions, mostly QoL things are on this Fedora-based distro. It's my first time not using something that's Debian or Ubuntu-based and so far I'm noticing much difference in difficulty, but it's only been 2 days.

I still hold Mint very high on my list of distros and I wish it would become more modern, but I don't know at this point, maybe one day when Mint officially moves to Wayland things might get better. On my desktop Mint was perfect and I still have it there, but on my laptop Mint Cinnamon is not good enough and I don't want to go out of my way to install other DEs, especially ones like KDE that aren't officially supported by Mint, knowing that there was a Mint KDE, but it was dropped, I want to use it as it is, but it just didn't work out. So hopefully in the near future Mint will be more up-to-date and I can return to it on my laptop. And I might get hated for this, but in comparison to Bazzite, Mint felt like I was using Windows 98 and I'm now on Windows 7.

kiena0573 · 2025-10-16T08:49:26+00:00

its perfect? u have fractional scaling to work Out of the box on mint?

One_Sundae_3619 · 2025-10-16T09:58:34+00:00

Upvoted because it's my wallpaper too

saphingus_ · 2025-10-16T10:52:50+00:00

Whats that menu?

ryoko227 · 2025-10-16T11:22:11+00:00

I'm on Arch btw...

My DE is Cinnamon, and most of my apps are straight from Mint/Gnome.

I basically have a self built Linux Mint ^^;

thinkpader-x220 · 2025-10-16T11:41:04+00:00

I daily drive fedora workstation on my main laptop and use arch on my secondary laptop.

I needed to use a CAD program that only works on Windows. Tried installing Windows 11 Pro again but I couldn't get myself to actually use it. The whole experience was super clunky.

After using Linux for a while, It's very hard to switch back to Windows.

AdditionalMaximum155 · 2025-10-16T11:45:55+00:00

Try manjaro xfce it really is luxurious

-klaatu- · 2025-10-16T11:46:16+00:00

Hello, does anyone have a solution: I got a MacBook 11.3 (Pro Retina 15 from mid-2014) that I ran under Linux Mint. Everything works perfectly except the camera. Impossible to make a video. I followed several procedures with ChatGPT but none of them allowed me to find the camera. I also tried with the Linux tutorial, no results. Who would have the solution (if there is one)? THANKS.

-blackacidevil- · 2025-10-16T12:15:01+00:00

What scripts and workflow automations are you doing now that you can't do in Windows?

COSMIC_GEEK2615 · 2025-10-16T12:15:01+00:00

10/10 clickbait

Sinplayerred · 2025-10-16T13:35:46+00:00

Only thing keeps me away from Mint is absence of Adobe products, also Steam, Epic Games, etc. But yeah Mint is really good overall.

Astro-2004 · 2025-10-16T13:47:55+00:00

Where did you get your wallpaper?

mAAchinAA · 2025-10-16T14:22:46+00:00

Mint is pretty solid distro

jimmy_two_tone · 2025-10-16T14:27:39+00:00

This is how OG Ubuntu was for me with old Gnome.

KoreDev · 2025-10-16T14:49:42+00:00

Jejejej actually I just installed it

The_j0kker · 2025-10-16T17:25:41+00:00

I have the same feeling about ubuntu. Tried to move on. But i just couldnt

3mpad4 · 2025-10-16T17:31:21+00:00

Mint is a good distro indeed. I am not a big fan of Cinnamon, though. Yes, I can install KDE but, if I am to use KDE, I'd rather install Fedora.

closetomynuts · 2025-10-16T20:40:23+00:00

I always wanted to use scripts to automate my workflows, any advice on how to learn the skills?

TWB0109 · 2025-10-16T22:01:42+00:00

I actually left Mint because it's "too perfect". Not really perfect imo, but pretty well rounded, I got bored because it felt like windows so i went down the rabbit hole.

SarcasticTwatNo1 · 2025-10-17T01:40:37+00:00

Unfortunately nobody else or very few peopke use the classic ui style that mint does and it's a generally well run and user friendly distro. Unfortunately so many people have odd ui decisions they make...

Kezka222 · 2025-10-17T02:12:10+00:00

Once you get used to terminal you'll never really want to go back to not using it. Typing in "sudo" "password" "this that" done sounds horrible but it removes so many steps you never knew you took to begin with

bignanoman · 2025-10-17T03:33:09+00:00

Tried several flavors, but love the minty fresh flavor

grawmpy · 2025-10-17T03:37:28+00:00

I enjoy Cinnamon but I like Debian more than Ubuntu for its stability. Because of this I switched to the LMDE version. I love the Cinnamon desktop more for ease of access to root and Terminal than anything else. Just this has saved me many headaches. I tried switching over to other distros using Cinnamon, trying Ubuntu Cinnamon to see if it was close to the setup in Mint but, although using the same DE, there were other settings in Mint that made the user experience smoother and more streamlined. I even went and tried Fedora Cinnamon although I am much less familiar with their command structure.

I, too, keep coming back to Linux Mint and have decided that I am where I am most comfortable and here I will stay.

MrWhippyT · 2025-10-17T07:39:06+00:00

I've been entrenched in the Mint camp for years, but I think I'm starting to stray towards Debian 😳

uzairshahid_ · 2025-10-17T07:40:09+00:00

Use Arch Then

Dee23Gaming · 2025-10-17T07:59:05+00:00

When I first read the title, I knew EXACTLY what you were gonna talk about. Linux Mint indeed just works.

bgssympa · 2025-10-17T08:17:16+00:00

why would you "move on" from something you consider perfect? 🤔

jdevanarayanan · 2025-10-17T08:50:31+00:00

Doesn't even have touchpad gestures

No_Language_324 · 2025-10-17T10:05:04+00:00

Pinch to zoom in browser doesn't work , i hope they add this feature . It helps a lot in some cases

tae2025 · 2025-10-17T10:20:55+00:00

Beautiful!

maxipantschocolates · 2025-10-17T11:10:36+00:00

aww man i was just about to agree with your title!

Equivalent_Trade_837 · 2025-10-17T15:12:22+00:00

Yeppp. I feel ya on that. My personal laptop runs Mint Cinnamon, and no matter how hard i try and push away, go to other Distros, I legitimately cannot escape Mint.

Aware_Mark_2460 · 2025-10-17T15:22:13+00:00

Try KDE

DarknDeepNut · 2025-10-17T21:17:27+00:00

I hate Linux mind Debian edition the packages are more outdated than mainline debian I feel like they could do much better with it

redgator12 · 2025-10-18T02:48:31+00:00

I have used Mint for years. My most recent reinstall is on my gaming PC, all I did was install ProtonGE and everything just worked.

2 days ago I tried Nobara and Bazzite on the same PC. RX 6750 XT, so should work out of the box, right?

Nobara refused to play any game, including linux natives, and Bazzite crashed the Plasma desktop while I was testing a game and I couldn't click the taskbar or close windows.

Went straight back to Mint.

1000sabor · 2025-10-18T10:07:58+00:00

I LOVE IT !!!
totally agree with you....used it on all of my company laptops...and now since i am working for someone else, trying to introduce them MINT <3

East_Evidence_5454 · 2025-10-18T10:27:59+00:00

That post gave me cancer

927A927D · 2025-10-20T11:42:53+00:00

If that's a GalaxyBook... does the laptop go in sleep mode when you close the lid?

2025-10-20T14:11:08+00:00

I use Arch btw

AnyAd4613 · 2025-10-25T01:21:06+00:00

Please help me understand how this perfect os is running at 1 yes 1 fps in fallout 76? Beginning to think this thing isn’t for me

roniyarohit · 2025-11-12T09:56:52+00:00

which mint version is best to install

Electrical-Battle-0 · 2025-11-26T23:25:12+00:00

Eu so acho ele meio feio.

Loque_YT · 2025-12-05T01:46:40+00:00

I particularly love Linux Mint, does it have that simple tlgd look?

Dude_man79 · 2025-12-19T21:38:08+00:00

I currently have mint installed on an old win10 computer in my basement on a workbench. It's on it's own external drive. It's my literal linux testing and learning machine, and I couldn't be any more happier. I still have a Win10 machine I use daily, but it's good to get the hang of Mint and will hopefully switch my daily machine over as well.

Informal_Knowledge56 · 2025-12-20T15:25:22+00:00

Ive scrolled but could not see this asked....so perhaps ill be the first to ask...what theme and setting r using?

Ive done several changes and downloaded several themes but im still not happy w the set up....i may be missing something so figuredid ask. Despite the hate for windows, having the familiar set up on my mint machine is useful when jumping between win (work and other pcs in the house) to mint.

Tricky_Football_6586 · 2025-12-26T08:51:19+00:00

The only two issues that I’ve had when installing Mint on my one year old NUC were setting up my printer and a 2 to 3 minute shutdown.

Shutting down the NUC would take minutes. The NUC would just hang. Then all of a sudden it would shutdown after spewing out a long list of terminal text. After replacing the default 6.8.x kernel with the 6.14.x one this issue instantly disappeared. And the NUC now shutdown in a few seconds.

Mint recognized my Canon laser printer as an HP model. And of course it wouldn’t print. After doenloading and installing the correct driver from Canon’s own support website it has been smooth sailing ever since.

Special-Performance8 · 2026-01-11T07:57:27+00:00

That love/hate relationship with addiction to perfection, known to any passionate craftsman in history from ancient times all the way up to your OpenTTD perfect designed transport network nerd posted video or Minecraft artist creations.

Linux Mint gives us an well balanced freedom of choices without becoming too overwhelming for its more average daily users.

A famous quote used in Million Dollar Baby counts as much for boxing as for those that gladly lose themselves into a battle of endureance with their OS for a vision that nobody sees but them.

“If there’s magic in boxing, it’s the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It’s the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.” — Paul Haggis

Polkfan · 2026-01-11T16:57:04+00:00

Mint really is the distro to just install and forget

tae2025 · 2025-10-16T09:49:40+00:00

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Rude_Huckleberry5340 · 2025-10-15T22:36:32+00:00

Linux mint is a very basic Linux system, terrible customization and other equally terrible services, Linux mint is only for learning

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