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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Mistiygirl@lemmy.zip to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

What did yall end up settling on?

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[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I settled years ago on a setup I like, but until that point I bounced around like a rubber ball. That said, my current setup is built on Ubuntu and I think it's about time to switch to Debian to get rid of the corporate bullshit.

[-] Elting@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah Iโ€™m a mint guy and I might switch to lmde, but not anytime soon

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 17 hours ago

Aren't mint users supposed to reinstall when it's time for a major version update, anyway?

[-] Elting@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago

Last time I think it updated through the update manager. Might have reinstalled itself in that process.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 17 hours ago

I don't think that's how that works รœ

[-] Elting@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago

I think one of the whole reasons the mint team stick with Ubuntu is it grants them the ability to use the kernel manager which makes these things more seamless.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Sure, but that's not what "reinstalling the OS" means in general use. I'm talking specifically about the kind of reinstall that overwrites everything on your root partition, and doing that for major updates seems to be a fairly common recommendation for certain kinds of distros; MX Linux says to do it like that, too.

[-] Elting@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago
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