Mint os vs Ubuntu

[Aman10003]

I built a pc a few weeks ago and installed windows. I want to dual boot with Linux. Which distros should I use and why? I have never used Linux before.

[Deli]

I like Mint. Minimum learning curve.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

17 minutes ago, Aman10003 said:

I built a pc a few weeks ago and installed windows. I want to dual boot with Linux. Which distros should I use and why? I have never used Linux before.

Both are relatively easy to navigate around. Ubuntu is certainly a bit more graphical than Mint. 

[Linus_torvalds]

Jus do not use ubuntu! Try avoiding Canonicals software.

[ProjectBox153]

I'd use Mint. I've had a few very bad experiences with Ubuntu, including an installation that randomly killed itself and won't boot anymore. 

[Clipsey]

There's multiple Linux distros you can try. For a beginner I'd recommend:
Solus, Elementary OS, Linux Mint and Zorin OS.

Solus is a rolling release distro, meaning that there will never exist a Solus 2, etc. that you will have to install. New features are intergrated via updates.
https://solus-project.com/

Elementary OS has a user interface akin to macOS and is generally the more fleshed out distro UI wise.
https://elementary.io/

Linux Mint, I don't have too much experience in; but I've heard it's good for beginners.
https://linuxmint.com/

 

Then there's Zorin OS, which is a linux distro that tries to emulate the user interface of windows very closely. It also comes preinstalled with wine which allows you to run some  but not all windows programs.
https://zorinos.com/

Both eOS, Mint and Zorin are based of Ubuntu.

[YamiYukiSenpai]

My personal preferences are Kubuntu and Ubuntu MATE, and they're good for beginners, IMO.

 

Kubuntu: an Ubuntu flavor running on KDE Plasma    , which very customizable and much more stable and lighter than Gnome (the de facto default Linux desktop environment).  It's what I use on my laptop.

 

Ubuntu MATE: same reason as Kubuntu, and because of it's Mutiny mode, which also brings the heads-up display from Unity (Ubuntu's former default DE before switching to Gnome).

[vorticalbox]

On 08/03/2018 at 3:17 PM, mate_mate91 said:

Jus do not use ubuntu! Try avoiding Canonicals software.

You do know mint is built on Ubuntu which in turn is built from Debian. 

 

Personally, I use Ubuntu budgie at work. I just like that desktop environment.

[Linus_torvalds]

10 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

You do know mint is built on Ubuntu which in turn is built from Debian. 

 

Personally, I use Ubuntu budgie at work. I just like that desktop environment.

Yes i know friend. But you should not use ubuntu software if you care about privacy. It's almost like using windows

Their own DE (unity) is deprecated, now they use gnome and i think in the future they are going to use lxqt.

[YamiYukiSenpai]

13 hours ago, mate_mate91 said:

Their own DE (unity) is deprecated, now they use gnome and i think in the future they are going to use lxqt.

Why are they switching to LXQt?  Unless you're talking about Lubuntu, which would make sense since LXDE is stuck on GTK2.

[vorticalbox]

13 hours ago, mate_mate91 said:

But you should not use ubuntu software if you care about privacy.

Do you have any evidence? Has far as I can tell Ubuntu respects settings in reguard to when to send data.

[Linus_torvalds]

9 hours ago, YamiYukiSenpai said:

Why are they switching to LXQt?  Unless you're talking about Lubuntu, which would make sense since LXDE is stuck on GTK2.

Probably because they want to unify platforms. Ubuntu touch uses lxqt. I like it. It's light. I hate gnome, kde and unity (thank god it's dead now). I myself use i3 it's not even full fledged DE it's just a WM.

9 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

Do you have any evidence? Has far as I can tell Ubuntu respects settings in reguard to when to send data.

I myself do not have one but i read news on the internet frequently

It's fact that they had telemetry on previous versions of ubuntu. It's enough for me not to trust company like that. But if you need more facts you can find them on the internet.

[vorticalbox]

4 hours ago, mate_mate91 said:

 fact that they had telemetry on previous versions of ubuntu. It's enough for me not to trust company like that. But if you need more facts you can find them on the internet.

The telemetry was optional, you can send crash reports if you like but you don't have to.

 

The only Ubuntu privacy issues were with unity and searching sending data being enabled by default. Unity isn't a thing now and it was super easy to turn off.

[YamiYukiSenpai]

23 hours ago, mate_mate91 said:

Probably because they want to unify platforms. Ubuntu touch uses lxqt. I like it. It's light. I hate gnome, kde and unity (thank god it's dead now). I myself use i3 it's not even full fledged DE it's just a WM.

Ubuntu Touch isn't using LXQt.  It's using the Qt framework, but not LXQt itself.  LXQt's purpose to be a lightweight desktop that's much easier to improve upon, and to be LXDE's successor as it won't use GTK3 due to the fact that it'll make LXDE much heavier.  Also, LXQt or LXDE isn't made to compete against a more feature-rich desktop environments like Gnome and KDE (BTW, KDE isn't as heavy Gnome, and I use it on a daily basis). 

 

Also, Canonical abandoned their convergence ambitions and focus more on the desktop and the cloud.

23 hours ago, mate_mate91 said:

It's fact that they had telemetry on previous versions of ubuntu.

They only send crash reports, and even then, that's not enabled by default.  Canonical's data collection system for 18.04 isn't that bad if you read about it from the source, and current users won't be forced to use it, as I asked about them around last month.