Is Linux Mint BETTER Than Windows?

28 thoughts on “Is Linux Mint BETTER Than Windows?”

• Does Cinnamon play nice with AMD dual graphics? I've got an Acer Nitro 5 from early 2019 that has a Ryzen 2500U and Radeon 260X discrete graphics.

• I've been using it in althon 3050u it's better

• i freaking love this guy

• MX Linux has been ranked higher than Mint on distrowatch for almost 4 years now.

• Also, My man has 1.6M views on a vid for newbie…

• For some weird reason, when you say no equivalent to windows software, you are showing office suite in the background, which maybe has the BEST equivalent… (it was probably missed by editing the video 4:37)… So to the newbie audience, either libre office or open office both work on windows and linux and are full fledged office suites… If you are more advanced, you can even have your own cloud at home to collaborate with all users of your business. (i use a laptop that battery and screen died as the server, with external ssd for both OS and data storage. YES you can do that. and i am no programmer either. just a business owner. once the laptop is dead, i just move the external drive to next laptop, no need to reinstall anything. so i save 480$ a month!)

• Thanks, great video. Unfortunately, there is no way around messy Windows, games and some apps available only for this platform makes it unavoidable. But it is really a mess.

• I've just installed cinnamon, it's nice apart from web based video playback. It's terrible tbh and the "fixes" don't work or aren't straightforward to implement.

• is that even a question?

• I've been using Mint and recently LMDE as a daily driver for more than 10 years now :]

• There's a reason there are so many flavors of Linux… my biggest machine runs Ubuntu. 16 core processor and 128gB ram for fpga development. Works but lots of time required to get the simplest things like USB drivers installed and working. All my other machines run windows 10.

• Just installed MINT {Cinnamon} …. Simple & FAST with NO Problems! It was MUCH Easier that ubumtu. Totally SiCK of microSHAFT and windows 11 was the LAST STRAW with their FORCED "game mode"!!!!

• I've never considered going linex before. However this efficiency mode is about to force my hand. Is there really no way to completely remove this shit?

• Yes, absolutely if you can remember the 10,000+ commands…

• I use Garuda Linux, which is a user-friendly version for arch Linux.

• Why don't people just call Linux what it really is?
  Look at the etc directory, ..there it is bold and clear… LINUX is none other than the old DOS Operating System. It just uses Apache Server as the server and Perl is the right there in the background to tie it all together. Its the same operating system IBM compatible computers ran on before Microsoft Windows and also the Early versions of Microsoft Windows was actually dependent on DOS in order to boot the computer. Bill Gates just gave the Dos Operating System a Graphical User Interface that later became "Windows". Windows still runs DOS hidden underneath and nowadays the only way you know it is there is by the Cmd Prompt syntax that it uses.
  Microsoft modified some of the syntax and just shortened the syntax spelling, and Linux (DOS) still use the same DOS full syntax that is written in DOS 4.0 & 5.0 versions.
  The reason today why Windows & Linux are incompatible is simply because of the type of partitions each one use. Windows partitions are NTFS & FAT32 and Linux runs a partition of EXT3 & EXT4, That is why they seem so different, but in truth neither is better than the other, .. it is just a matter of preference of the user.

  Stop leading people to believe that Linux is some Genie out of the Lamp. DOS was the very reason why people ran to Microsoft to begin with, because when DOS was in its prime, most people didn't like using computers because of all the typing and the time they struggled trying to remember all the DOS commands…. That is how Microsoft became #1, ..Bill Gates gave the world an easy way to use a complicated device by simple clicking the icon, and for the first time We saw the computer screens light up like Colorful Christmas Trees and we then was able to start playing Arcade and Games on the computer…. the good ole Tandy 286 Computers started flying off the shelves at Radio Shacks all over America. I remember DOS from those days, I used it then, and now I am seeing it again in what everybody is now calling LINUX.
  ITS NOT NEW, … DOS has been around since the beginning.

• linux is better for a not new systems? u can tell that to my laptop from 2008 and my problems with gf 8400m with 340 driver. on any windows it goes much easyer

• YES

• Hoping, it was actual flavors, it's tea and coffee. Mate and mint are types of tea. Cinnamon is a roast grade for coffee beans. Can't figure out xfce, though. XFCE is the problem name.

• Linux channel please, doing the good peoples work! Thanks!

• Yup

• This is not factual. It is far more complicated to get mint to load permanently on to a drive. EXT4 anyone. Thanks for the lack of info LTT.

• I'm a Windows user who recently tried both Linux Mint and Zorin OS. I got each of them to load on an older desktop (Intel Core i5-4570) and played around with each version for a couple of weeks before re-loading Windows on that computer. Two glaring problems I ran into was the lack of "plug and play" and the requirement to use the Terminal for installing drivers and programs. Specifically, the desktop came with an ethernet port, which both Mint and Zorin correctly installed during setup, but when I tried to plug a wi-fi adapter (Realtek RTL8812BU) into a USB port, nothing happened. So I googled how to install the drivers for that adapter, and tried to follow the instructions given, but never got it to work. Now here's the catch–I may be a "noob" Linux user, but I have 30 years experience with Windows, and if I could not install the hardware drivers, then very few users new to Linux would be able to do so. Ask yourself when was the last version of Windows that required users to install drivers manually, or required extensive use of the command line. Maybe Windows 95 or Windows XP. My point is that until there is a Linux distro that is truly "plug and play", you are never going to get people to switch to Linux in large numbers.

• I mean mate actually aligns with the flavors thing as its a type of tea and there are mate ice creams too

• why does everyone hate windows 11
  it aint that bad

• I installed Mint about 3 weeks ago and not sure why, but it's slow and sluggish! Bad and I'm far above the minimum requirements. 16GB of Ram Intel i7 dual-core processor. I cant watch videos or movies because of this
  …Still trying to figure it, so if anyone has any tips please let me know.

• Mint 21.2 on a 15 yp laptop still boots faster than Windows 11.

• I have an old laptop originally came with Windows 8 (not 8.1) later upgraded to Windows 10. Should I restore it to factory settings before installing Mint?

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