[bitL]

To all Mint developers: THANK YOU!!!

I use Mint for over 5 years as my main OS and it allowed me to make a seamless transition from Windows/macOS to Linux for everyday tasks, on high-end hardware with multiple HiDPI monitors and including games with recent Steam updates (thanks to Ubuntu + Valve as well!). I can't imagine being stuck with Windows 10/macOS these days.

[Chirael]

I've been using it for 2-3 years now on a Chromebook I converted to dual-boot with one of the options being Linux Mint on a USB. I don't use it every day but I do use it probably one a week for something vital. So I want to second the Thank You to the Mint developers!

[JudgeWapner]

THANK YOU. I used it for 7 years, because I was sick of constantly tending to my Gentoo install. I used LM because it Just Worked. I never had to think about the OS, I could just focus on my work.

The biggest bug I had in 7 years of using it was my /boot partition filling up because new kernel installs wouldn't delete the old kernels/initrd.img. Other than that, it just worked. Thank you

[saikatsg]

What do you use now, looks like you don't use LM any more ;)

[JudgeWapner]

I use Arch. Kind of complex reasons, I guess. It wasn't that LM was deficient in any way, just figured it was time to really dig in and understand what my OS was doing. Arch has the best documentation, so I decided to switch to it.

[O1111OOO]

> Arch has the best documentation, so I decided to switch to it.

Not an Arch user but their documentation is amazing (small sample[0]). I toyed with FreeBSD years ago and have never forgotten just how well documented the entire system was too[1].

Well-written documentation (with plenty of real world examples) is severely underappreciated in modern tech. It's not only empowering but it's just plain fun getting under the hood.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/List_of_applications

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/c...

[rsa4046]

> Well-written documentation (with plenty of real world examples) is severely underappreciated in modern tech. It's not only empowering but it's just plain fun getting under the hood.

This can't be said enough. Complete, well-written, well-maintained documentation is a key divide separating open- and closed-source. It's expensive and time-consuming to produce — and absolutely essential. Trying to understand how to access a critical setting that some UI wizard has hidden from view in Windows? GLWT.