hey me too! Andromeda had such a tragic fate…

Sometimes i really despise this hobby and the community in general. Masterpieces are rare by nature, so to expect exceptional at every step feels unfair and an impossible standard.

we really ought to celebrate and enjoy the good enoughs, and the deviants… ain’t nothing wrong in a 7/10 sequel that approached differently.

Absolutely. They will.

With the momentum that Mint already has, it has the highest chance of succeeding as the primary distro for Linux newbies in the coming years.

some long winded thoughts…

Like every PC Semi-enthusiast sufferer of Windows, when I was looking for a Linux distro to respite, I deliberated way too long on which distro to use. Finally I realized that the way I use Windows, I’ll not be able to fully switch over to Linux anytime soon. So instead of burning midnight oil, one day i said fuck it, and installed Mint as a dual boot option. I spent quite a lot of time trying to make the Mint as close to my Windows setup as possible, but couldn’t do fully. Plus the VKD3D performance penalty for Nvidia GPU in DX12 games meant I was never going to ditch Windows as my primary gaming OS.

hmmm… tough choice… i guess… I’ll burn them all! No biases then

so I’m not very knowledgeable about the Linux world, but I’m also not completely green. In my lifetime I have dabbled with trying out 4-5 distros either dualbooting or VMing, Ubuntu being my first experience.

But i feel like, as much as I love our Lord and Savior GabeN, what Valve’s doing with Steam OS is not fully how I image a PC Linux Utopia vision looks like? Maybe i am not able to word it properly, my thought salad, but it feels like there is something missing in the Valve’s approach to challenging Microsoft’s grip on PC market

is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Agree 100%. The amount of “help” content and documentation, both formal and informal, for other distros doesn’t even come close to that of Ubuntu. It’s like tenfold more. And so 90% of it becomes immediately, if not applicable, alteast in the right direction, for Mint as well.

it is OBJECTIVELY linux mint. Why? Because.

this comment was written on June 2025. So as of this day Mint is fabulous. And if I were to save a single distro from a burning building of all the popular distros, i would grab mint twice.

I know I know, there are many good distros, even texhnically better ones. But having used Mint as a secondary dual boot to my primary Windows, I have felt that Mint has been least annoying and actually worth retaining and updating and maintaining.

Ruin it and make yourself miserable by implementing AI into this…

Kidding aside, this is hilarious and useful at the same time! Thank you for doing something creative that does suck ass immediately