Lettuce eat lettuce

Always eat your greens!

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: July 12th, 2023
  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•🐧
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    3 days ago

    Don’t feel bad about the distro you land on, especially not Linux Mint. It’s the #1 distro I recommend to completely new Linux users.

    I use it myself for any computer that I want a #JustWorks experience on. The Cinnamon desktop environment is super stable and easy to use. And so far, Linux Mint is the only distro I know of where you truly don’t have to use the terminal for anything even kernel updates/rollbacks, alternative driver installations, and major version upgrades.

    The Mint team is wonderful and they’ve created a fantastic product.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•GUIs
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    3 days ago

    I like good GUIs. There are GUIs that are clean, responsive, well designed, and full-featured.

    Sadly, that is rare nowadays, regardless if the software is FOSS or not.

    It seems like for proprietary software, the corporate approach is to design slow, boring GUIs that lack most/all advanced functionality. It’s designed for dumb users who just want to click and swipe.

    FOSS on the other hand rarely has full or even part time UI/UX devs due to the cost. So often the GUIs are clunky, messy, and a horrible pain to navigate. The upside is that they usually have extremely deep features, but good luck finding them.

    If I have to pick, FOSS all the way, but I wish I didn’t have to. There are a few FOSS programs that have very nice UIs, Bitwarden, Protonmail, Musescore, Godot, and many are getting better, but the landscape is still rough out there.

    As for CLI, I prefer it for some things, it’s just faster depending on the function. I find myself operating with a hybrid setup now days. I have become proficient enough with the command line that I can switch seamlessly between my GUI environments and the CLI-only environments. I don’t really think about it much anymore.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•The Universal Operating System
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    18 days ago

    I’ve been liking vanilla Debian more and more lately. It takes a bit of time to set up properly, and there are some drawbacks for certain software stacks. But in general, rock stable, no muss, barely any fuss.

    Once it’s set up, it’s awesome for workhorse servers.

    And as long as you don’t need anything cutting edge, it’s not bad as a desktop OS. I used Debian12 with the Plasma DE for a while at a job I had and it was very usable. A few weird issues, but nothing terrible.