Any Linux or Debian users here, hold up your hand.

I don't actively run Linux, but I have worked with it enough on the backend to sort of get by. What's going on?

I moved over to Linux Mint when Windows 2000 was about 6 months past its EOL. Now Linux Mint has slowly progressed into a unstable operating system with as many annoyances as Windows. LM now has all kinds of crashes too, it was a GREAT run but its time to move on to something else, Mint is even slipping in the installation polls https://distrowatch.com/ for a while.

I tried https://linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php it runs a lot faster but still has the annoyances and is showing slight signs of instability when doing anything that involves graphics.

I am running older hardware, NOT building a new PC so I can stay with LM current PC is still plenty fast its a AMD3 8 core at 4.2mhz

Anyways I have it running with Debian based Linux Mint xfce version which is stable enough to test out other operating systems using Virtual Box and found MX Linux https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mx its running GREAT and FAST as a Virtual Machine only using 4 cores and 2GB ram has almost zero annoyances once I changed the desktop background it came with, it runs all the great Open Source software I have grown to love, if it works out I should get another 5 years with this old PC hardware.

I watched MX Linux work its way up the Distro Watch list for about the past year so hopefully the team will stick together and keep it updated for years to come.

I think Linux Mint has lost sight and is more focused on adding new stuff and improving graphics rather than stability/speed. They still produce a great operating system its just not good with older hardware like the old days, and removing the annoyance is too complex and tiresome.

Thanks.

Lots of respect for forging ahead with Linux on the desktop. When I ran a Mac it was pretty close in a lot way since it's just BSD Unix under the hood, which at least made everything very available. I run Windows now and it has come a long, long way because you can install a platform native subsystem (e.g., better than a virtual machine) that allows one to install Linux distros directly alongside of it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_S ... _for_Linux ). (the biggest thing that made move, and keeps me on, Windows are some profession-specific apps, which I can't get anywhere else)

Linux is easy no one should be scared of it. Apple Windows are both like Google they over charge you for software then spy on everything you do and sell your profile. The difference between spyware and not is clicking I AGREE read the EULA's how you think they are making all their billions.

Most people are scared of the command prompt, now most Linux operating systems are just like windows or mac.

Most everything Linux is opensource and FREE! I have never bought a Linux program.

Betting most the " profession-specific apps" you run in Linux using Wine or Bottles, Bottles builds a windows operating system in a container then you can install your software, there are also pre-built Bottles you just download and run sort of like Docker Containers.

My laptop is dual boot, it came with windows then I installed Linux Mint on it, I kept the windows just in case I was on a road trip and needed to run a windows strange reason. Once I sort out what OS I am going with will format the partition with windows and install Linux on it.

The only windows program I still use is GoogleEarth Portable, I use the portable version so when on my trips I pre-cache the area I will be riding so I do not need to download gigs of data over the phone connection, Using the portable version allows me to have 20 different GoogleEarth Portable's ready to run, 40GB of data just waiting to be used. I use GoogleEarth Portable to map out my future ride trips, I have figured out how to run GoogleEarth Portable in both Wine and Bottles.

Cool thing about Open Source is they are like Pilot and Odyssey enthusiast trying to fix, design and build better versions nonstop and have each others back, coders live for removing vulnerabilities in software and looking for security issues.