Ta-ra-rasputin, lover of the Linux thing, there was a long, thorough review of Linux Mint 19 Tara Cinnamon edition, tested in a multi-boot setup with Windows and Linux on a laptop with UEFI, GPT and Intel graphics, covering live session, installation and post-install usage, including look & feel, fonts, networking - Wireless, Bluetooth, Samba sharing, and printing, multimedia playback - HD video and MP3, smartphone support - Android, iPhone (iOS) and Windows Phone, partitioning, package management, updates, system snapshots, applications, hardware compatibility, stability, suspend & resume, performance, responsiveness, resource utilization, customization, system settings, various problems and regressions, other observations, and more. Have fun. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-mint-tara.html Cheers, Mrk
I find the repository to be an integral part of what a Linux distro should be, an umbilical cord. Snaps introduce an alien element, disharmony.
Good review! Looking forward to your fix to improve the fonts rendering. I like Linux Mint but the fonts rendering is not the best part of it.
Maybe it s just me lol.It may be .I was always a fan of KDE and maybe that was the issue with it. Nevertheless , Linux Mint is quite overhyped in my view , bugged .Some people may try it, consider it ugly or bad and thinking it s the only user firendly Linux available to give up entirelly in testing something else in the Linux world. Linux wise i ve used OpenSuse 12.xx ,13.xx and newer and they always were the best amongst Mandriva ,Ubuntu ,Mint or SimplyMepis (some of this are already eol) . The only annoying thing is the lack of real support for PC gaming ,at least with my AMD cards .It worked only once in 12.3 i think , i ve played some Team Fortress and CS under Steam some years ago with no sound. Untill OpenSuse 13.1 , i could use an AMD AM1 machine as a router/firewall and multimedia box in same time. Autoupdates killed often Ubuntu and Linux Mint installs ,OpenSuse was the most robust Linux i ve ever used .
