Mint and Pop OS really aren’t usable for cutting edge GPU’s tho.
Batmorous@lemmy.world 1 day ago
More!! More! Everybody get others into Linux Mint and Pop OS Cosmic as well!! I am doing my part if we want better we must grow the community
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Anivia@feddit.org 1 day ago
That’s simply not true for PopOS
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I just figured because it’s based on Ubuntu. My mistake.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 33 minutes ago
It’s based on Ubuntu LTS, that’s true. But Ubuntu backports device drivers to older (LTS) kernel versions, so the performance/hardware support is often similar/the same as using a newer kernel.
I believe they call this backporting of device drivers the “hardware enablement stack”, but I may be misremembering.
PopOS uses this, but Mint I believe is a strange one. You can get a variant of Mint that enables the hardware enablement stack, but I don’t think it’s a feature of standard Mint.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I tried Mint and it’s just too buggy to use.
olympicyes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What video card do you have? Do you plan to use the machine for gaming?
Sektor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I switched to mint 3 weeks ago at the gentle age of 48 and so far it’s excellent. I had several issues which i almost all solved with googling and some AI. And I don’t know anything about programing. AND IT DOESN’T PUSH ANYTHING ON ME, IT’S UNREAL.
newbeni@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Isn’t it lovely? I switched like 15 years ago but I still appreciate everyday not having some new “feature” being shoved down my throat.