• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Calling it a “Fischer Price” distro is a little patronizing. I’m a seasoned Linux user and I use Mint for work because I just want something that works when my paycheck is on the line. Mint has never broken on me and always works.

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      3 hours ago

      Slight sarcasm - I’m also a Mint user, and it was like a recursive reference to this meme from forever ago. Maybe it was too specific and dated, but the point is that since Macs were so easy to use, the Windows people back in the 8.1 days treated Mac users like kindergartners as they paid for their $1,000 facebook machines (also a meme from that time).

      All the “Yeah, I use Arch, BTW” people that love the struggle and the hobbyist tweaks of their distros seem to look down on Mint users because it doesn’t require a struggle to use Mint. I used to see it all the time when I first jumped over to Linux.

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      3 hours ago

      Exactly! I’ve been using a laptop with Mint for school for more than 5 years and I’ve had no problems with it

      That being said, I also haven’t had any problems with my TV PC running Fedora, or my fileserver running Ubuntu either, so… 🤷