Magnolia_@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-23 months agoPeople doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?lemmy.caimagemessage-square244fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down118
arrow-up136arrow-down1imagePeople doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse with KDE and Gnome?lemmy.caMagnolia_@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square244fedilink
minus-square737@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agomesa is outdated by default, not supporting rx 7000 cards unless you use the edge iso.
minus-squaren2burns@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoIf you have new hardware, why wouldn’t you use the Edge ISO?
minus-square737@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agowhy should you have to? it’s a really bad choice by the distro maintainers.
minus-squaren2burns@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoCan you explain? As a Mint user with really old hardware, I appreciate using the LTS kernel. However, I also appreciate them giving users other options.
minus-square737@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agothere is no benefit to old lts kernels on the desktop, kernel releases are always extremely stable
mesa is outdated by default, not supporting rx 7000 cards unless you use the edge iso.
If you have new hardware, why wouldn’t you use the Edge ISO?
why should you have to? it’s a really bad choice by the distro maintainers.
Can you explain? As a Mint user with really old hardware, I appreciate using the LTS kernel. However, I also appreciate them giving users other options.
there is no benefit to old lts kernels on the desktop, kernel releases are always extremely stable