Comments on: Linux Mint Is Still the Leading Desktop Distribution

By: Divine

Divine — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 20:19:43 +0000

Imagine what Deepin would be like if you put an hour of styling into it 🙂

By: Chimpscookie

Chimpscookie — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 17:53:25 +0000

My XFCE desktop looks better than deepin. Plus you get lesser RAM usage. Downside of xfce is, you need about a couple of hours to beautify it.

By: Chimpscookie

Chimpscookie — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 17:49:56 +0000

Linux Mint was my entry point to the wonderful world of Linux. Right now i think i’m still on the distro-hopping phase of my linux life but i find Manjaro to be very good, even better than Mint. Everything loads faster, security is better thanks to the rolling release, and personally i just like it more, though every now and then i have that urge to go back to Mint.

Perhaps i’m the average nerdy guy who can pull off some cool stuff but doesn’t have time for things like ArchLinux installation. So Manjaro is the perfect pick for me. 😀

By: MdN

MdN — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:49:21 +0000

In reply to jawnhenry.

This is all fine and well, but why use DistroWatch as a reference? I spend my time using my computer, not checking new distributions. Let’s use something else, say, Facebook.

Ubuntu – 1,330,541 likes
Linux Mint – 130000 (10 times fewer)
Manjaro – 20000
Lubuntu – 73000
Arch Linux – 13000
Deepin – 7700
(I’m using Xubuntu with 17000 fans)

So, numbers mean what? All and nothing. Just use what works for you. I visit this page to check the news, as I have nothing against Mint (probably because I don’t know anyone who uses it) not to read silly insults. Buggy? Haha.

By: michael biller

michael biller — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 22:33:30 +0000

I have been checking out LMDE3 as well as Manjaro lately. I have always been impressed with Linux Mint and keep an installation in a dual-boot setup on one of my laptops. My love for Deepin has also made me a fan of Debian and LMDE3 is a huge improvement over LMDE2. LMDE3 has given me absolutely no issues with any part of the system and Cinnamon runs like a well oiled machine. I am definitely a fan. LMDE3 makes a good fit with Deepin 15.7 and since they are both Debian based it keeps me firmly in the Debian camp which I have come to prefer. I like getting my hands dirty with the ins and outs of Debian and when configured and tweaked properly it has none of issues that crop up with Ubuntu-based systems.

Now for Manjaro. Wow! I am quickly understanding the power of Arch. The repositories are amazing. Even Lector is in the Arch repo. Manjaro is gives me the opportunity the see what Arch has to offer in a way that is just awesome. I feel my Linux skills have entered intermediate, anyway. I can configure Debian without headache and I have no problem compiling software from source, although Python can be tricky at times. Manjaro makes me want to learn more. I still have my love for Deepin, LMDE3 as well as KDE Neon but Manjaro is one of the finest distributions I have had the pleasure to check out and it looks like it will find a full time home on one of my rigs. My first taste of Arch was with Antergos but it is not hard to see why Manjaro has become so popular. It is here to stay.

By: jack

jack — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 07:45:55 +0000

In reply to chrisleonard.

Its not so much that Mint is tip-top, but that the others are subpar in terms of getting masses into the loop, using GUIs to simplify management of archane protocols, which makes Mint sort of prominent, not wonderful overall as an OS, but stick out above the other Linux for people who just cant be bothered with manic “manual combing”. Unix/Linux is made for programmers and never was intended to be secure nor stable nor anything but a programming platform. Mint has still a lot of work needed, specifically in terms of efficiency and security, but then again much of that is architectural under the hood and not Mint-specific, but Linux or Debian or X11 (window mgr) or kernel or C language specific, which are handled by other orgs, Mint is far downtream, they essentially just patch this stuff and choose whatever most stable options rather than rearchitect and remaster as these things really need to be. So in effect they just polish the shoes, not design or build them. On the other hand, Apple does the entire chain, its apples and oranges.