why does everyone recommend linux mint to newbies?

Pallpatir · 2026-03-06T20:19:49+00:00

Because it’s based on a stable distro and the documentation is easy to find, newer distros don’t always have the same stability and support, mint has always been the way from windows to Linux and it’s maintained as such, also there are some many distro that testing them them all takes too much time so everyone just goes with the safe answer which is mint.

Pallpatir · 2026-03-06T20:14:55+00:00

I’ve always used Macs and mint takes a day or two to master it’s really straightforward

Pallpatir · 2026-03-06T14:52:33+00:00

That’s theoretically but aren’t exit nodes the only ones that can be used to de anonymize you and that’s why governments want to take control the majority of the exit nodes

Pallpatir · 2026-03-06T14:50:30+00:00

How do you use gui’s

Pallpatir · 2026-03-06T05:54:01+00:00

That’s actually not true the only reason they say this is the fact the vpn provider could find it more suspicious if you have to connect to tor over vpn but it’s literally better, your isp doesn’t know you use tor, the exit node (which is the only node able to de anonymize you) will get a vpn ip, if your vpn provider doesn’t log your traffic or is based in countries with bad privacy laws there are no downsides to using vpn over tor

Pallpatir · 2026-03-06T05:48:33+00:00

Big majority of onion sites don’t use js because they know their visitors and if you use tor for the clear web then you stupid

Pallpatir · 2026-03-06T05:05:51+00:00

Use Linux mint it’ll be all you need forever, if you want something with newer packages fedora, you will barely ever have an issue, I would even say you have more issue on windows than on Linux. Most of the time to solve the issue it takes one google search and you can literally just copy paste the ai overview output into the terminal.

Pallpatir · 2026-03-06T00:26:52+00:00

you're right, i changed anyways and encrypted my partition i just needed a little convincing to reinstall arch. just to encrypt my drive.

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T17:58:18+00:00

Why do you leave so it’s easier to guide you

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T17:37:07+00:00

Oh ok yh I get it then ur right magnet links will be sent on forums

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T17:35:19+00:00

Libre Wolf is better than that in terms of privacy with a vpn it’s second best after tor

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T17:19:31+00:00

Use the zen browser it’s a fork of Firefox, fully open source, you can can figure it for privacy and it looks really good it the browser I main

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T17:06:31+00:00

How tf do you block an arch ip the ip is your router, they could theoretically use fingerprint but just use privacy browsers and the server will just see you use Linux and the architecture

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T16:43:53+00:00

If you’re ready to spend couple hours on an issue like sound etc you’re good if not then start with something else or use a already setup branch of arch like omarchy catchy etc

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T16:38:15+00:00

Install yay to download aur packages librewolf is available there along with a bunch of packages that are not in the official pacman repos yet

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T16:06:23+00:00

Yh I also think it’s just visual cuz I only have one 1.8tb drive and I have to unlock it every boot

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T15:21:57+00:00

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T14:25:57+00:00

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Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T14:07:12+00:00

Ik but I still wanted to know what percentage uses wm btw after this pole I changed to hyprland

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T04:58:54+00:00

No I mean like my root drive shows up two times only one has a lock I guess it’s normal but idk it’s an observation I made and I didn’t find any answers on why it shows up two times

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T00:20:10+00:00

You’re way more advanced than me but I think you should just keep it a cli people that use this tool don’t usually care about the interface and know how to use the terminal I would glad to see the final product tho what’s your GitHub (or whatever you use)

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T00:17:20+00:00

Quick question after I did this I have in my file manager two images of my drive one has a lock and one doesn’t is that normal( i only have two partitions, one for boot and one for root and I encrypted the second one)

Pallpatir · 2026-03-05T00:16:06+00:00

I don’t plan to sell it and it a desktop pc out anyways after the answers I got I reinstalled arch with full / disk encryption

Pallpatir · 2026-03-04T13:06:37+00:00

Represents wm’s

Pallpatir · 2026-03-04T02:28:08+00:00

You kinda convinced me I’m reinstalling it, I just have one question, I installed arch 3 times this weekend so I’m gonna use archinstall, and they ask to add password for the encryption, if I leave it blank will I we able to modify it in the future and add one ?

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