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-square737@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoplasma has wayland support, tons of customizability, better multi monitor support, a great suite of applications including a text editor with lsp support and much more, and in general looks nicer. cinnamon is sort of the bare minimum
minus-squaretabular@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoDoes that include support for variable refresh rate with multiple monitor (Freesync in my case).
minus-squaremihnt@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months ago better multi monitor support I run a 3x1 setup and KDE didn’t handle it any better than Cinnamon did. Wayland support is coming to Mint. You can actually use it on 21.3 right now but it is unstable. Rest of what you said is opinion.
plasma has wayland support, tons of customizability, better multi monitor support, a great suite of applications including a text editor with lsp support and much more, and in general looks nicer. cinnamon is sort of the bare minimum
Does that include support for variable refresh rate with multiple monitor (Freesync in my case).
Yes
I run a 3x1 setup and KDE didn’t handle it any better than Cinnamon did.
Wayland support is coming to Mint. You can actually use it on 21.3 right now but it is unstable.
Rest of what you said is opinion.