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Mint veteran here. You aren’t safe. Nvidia will come for all of us.
Meme aside, they have been pretty stable lately. But 2023-2024 had some pretty iffy drivers for my laptop GPU.
Kernel is on the older side, but safe. You don’t really need to have the latest kernel all the time though. All those 1% performance improvements can wait.
I mean I’m on rolling releaase and tbh it was a stable experience, like I was expecting it to break but I have been having a blast, Linux is an awesome experience.
Use Debian and install the NVIDIA driver yourself, doesn’t Mint include non-free software by default? If this is your average Joe, they probably don’t care. In my honest opinion, it should be a mandatory task for every new GNU/Linux user to learn about Free Software, the GNU Project, and libre software. I am not a fan of Mint at all.
Actually mint ship free software by default! Although there’s nothing preventing you from downloading more (no please add non free software checkbox)
Nvidia drivers are actually opt-in (it’s actually nouveau by default), so for the average person that should be fine… Personally I need the proprietary drivers for blender so I 'm stuck with it.
Although I don’t see how going to debian would help with anything…
when I first switched to linux I used mint for all of two weeks, was an awful experience and almost made me go back to windows until someone told me to try cachyos instead.
I haven’t used Mint since but I might install it on my VM to give it another crack since likely it was personal user error that made it awful for me. Just had constant issues with my nvidia gpu.
I mean… Linux is about freedom to choose. If thrill is what you seek, you can write a custom post-hook script that has one out of six chance of removing all your important system files.
Where da meme?
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