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Linux Mint as been in development for over 15 years. Its good for them to get some press coverage and positive attention.

As far as I can tell most people switching to Linux Mint are fairly happy with the experience beside some minor Linux quarks.

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[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (19 children)

Hm? Linux Mint got plenty of attention imo (deservedly so).

Just look how many articles are listed on distrowatch: https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=mint

Personally I am still pissed that they dropped KDE, though.

[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Real question: Is it not possible to install KDE, even though they do not provide an ISO with it?

[–] Berny23@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I did install it via package manager back when I used this distro and it worked well, but some weeks after, I switched distros to Kubuntu. Now I'm using Arch btw. with latest KDE Plasma (I recommend this).

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

At this point, Arch should just rename itself to "Arch btw".

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