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After using linux mint for a few hours I have quite a few complaints:

 

I can't middle-click scroll

Everything in firefox somehow looks different

Skype is the most retarded looking application ever

The firefox titlebar is ugly AF, it wastes so much space

If I hadn't read a guide I would not have in a million years guessed that that green icon right by menu is show desktop

on-screen keyboard kills anyhope of using the taskbar

on-screen keyboard auto-hide is just plain broken

I'd rather have snapping to the top of the window make it fullscreen, not take up half of the screen where everything in it becomes virtually useless to me

youtube videos take a second to pause

 

As ranty as this sounds this wasn't meant to be a rant, I want to find solutions for all these problems if possible.

I guess maybe I just installed the wrong distro or something but currently I really want windows back. In fact I just might go back.

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God Mint is just a headache. I'd use most other distros first.

 

Doesn't excuse how terrible it is.

I'm aware.

I've never liked Mint at all. This kid at school is a Mint Nazi and for an IPT assignment I did a list of reasons why Mint is crap.

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God Mint is just a headache. I'd use most other distros first.

 

Doesn't excuse how terrible it is.

Any recommendations? I earlier when I was picking a distro I was trying to choose between elementary, opensuse, ubuntu mate, and mint. Apparently I made the wrong choice. Also is there a non-shit skype somewhere?

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Any recommendations? I earlier when I was picking a distro I was trying to choose between elementary, opensuse, ubuntu mate, and mint. Apparently I made the wrong choice. Also is there a non-shit skype somewhere?

I've yet to get skype to look proper on Mint. I prefer Elementary the most of those but I need more time to find complaints with it.

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I've yet to get skype to look proper on Mint. I prefer Elementary the most of those but I need more time to find complaints with it.

I feel like mint might suck less on a laptop, not a 23" monitor. Also is there anything I should check out that I didn't list? I would try them all but it takes like 3-8 hours to download any one of them.

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you should switch to debian. its more stable. 

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I feel like mint might suck less on a laptop, not a 23" monitor. Also is there anything I should check out that I didn't list? I would try them all but it takes like 3-8 hours to download any one of them.

I use Mint on a laptop, it's terrible. I'm not big on Linux distros but I've used a fair bit of them and they all seem to have a lot of "ease of use" problems when it comes to them. I still find Windows much better to use instead.

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I'll make sure to check it out.

 

So far I have two linux distros I don't care for.

1. Linux Mint

2. Ubuntu, its not that bad but I really dislike the menu thing.

the gui is not the best for either but with linux you need to learn to use terminal/command prompt. once you get the hang of this you wont need to use the gui. 

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I'll make sure to check it out.

So far I have two linux distros I don't care for.

1. Linux Mint

2. Ubuntu, its not that bad but I really dislike the menu thing.

Try ubuntu with GNOME. I really like it.

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Debian with gnome.

 

Using Ubuntu with GNOME is a sin--and wastes so much space with their bastard child, Unity (which consequently needs to be taken out back and shot)

Currently I'm thinking either elementary, suse, or debian.

 

I see a lot of debian recommendations, what does it do differently? What are its advantages?

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Currently I'm thinking either elementary, suse, or debian.

 

I see a lot of debian recommendations, what does it do differently? What are its advantages?

 

Elementary is based on Ubuntu... Which is based on Debian. All debian/ubuntu/whatever stuff that installs .deb packages are considered Debian-based distributions. Debian is the parent of all of them, and as such (in my opinion), is why you shouldn't settle for other random distros that people throw together. Just install pure debian and whatever desktop environment you want, and extend it from there.

 

Suse is an ok OS, but can be a bit complicated at times.

 

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Ubuntu or Debian with lxde/lubuntu-desktop package

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Elementary is based on Ubuntu... Which is based on Debian. All debian/ubuntu/whatever stuff that installs .deb packages are considered Debian-based distributions. Debian is the parent of all of them, and as such (in my opinion), is why you shouldn't settle for other random distros that people throw together. Just install pure debian and whatever desktop environment you want, and extend it from there.

 

Suse is an ok OS, but can be a bit complicated at times.

 

You're better of picking Debian, CentOS, or Fedora. Those are good starting OSs

Alright, torrenting it now. Also I should have mentioned I do have a little linux experience as I used to use ubuntu on a really shitty laptop.

 

Also would you know a way to get a less shit skype? I use it fairly often. Maybe I should just run it through wine

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