Re: The First Distro To Offer XLibre

On Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:08:07 -0400, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote in
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Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

Le 30-06-2025, CtrlAltDel <Altie@BHam.com> a écrit :

On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:02:09 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:
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If you can't roll your own with Gentoo/LFS, then at least liberate
yourself with Artix.

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Is it developed by the same people who created and maintain Linux
Mint?

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No.
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If not, what's the point of even trying it?

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You see, you never tried anything else than Mint and your opinion is
based on nothing.

 
 
The problem I had updating Mint to a newer release goes to show why it's
a lot more mediocre a distro than the users proclaim, I had too much
baggage for an in-place upgrade, and then booting the installer to start
fresh didn't even work, clearly it saw I had a still- supported version
installed and just refused to load the installer to overwrite it.  It's
a beginner OS, not for real enthusiasts of Linux.

I disagree, for the reasons already stated.

I will say, I did in-place upgrades to Mint 22.1 on the wife's
workstation and my laptop before I risked it on my battlestation.
It did require some .deb surgery, but that's not unlike what I'd
go through with Fedora, where I would have to do .rpm surgery.  Comes
with the territory -- and BTW, doing ".deb surgery" is _not_
"beginner" material.

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