Magnolia_@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agoPeople doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse?lemmy.caimagemessage-square99fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imagePeople doing the 30 days linux Challenge are having several problems because of Mint's old packages and technology. Why people still recommend it when there is Fedora and Opensuse?lemmy.caMagnolia_@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square99fedilink
minus-squareDesRoin :fullstacklive:@geekdom.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months ago@Magnolia_ been running Mint for years and never had issues with the package versions being too old for anything 🤷🏻♂️
minus-squaren2burns@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoI’m generally in the same boat. I don’t think of Mint’s packages as “old”, but “stable”. I’ve had a few cases where I want the latest features, and there are easy ways to get new versions. Dialing down instability isn’t so easy.
@Magnolia_ been running Mint for years and never had issues with the package versions being too old for anything 🤷🏻♂️
I’m generally in the same boat. I don’t think of Mint’s packages as “old”, but “stable”. I’ve had a few cases where I want the latest features, and there are easy ways to get new versions. Dialing down instability isn’t so easy.