Bored with Mint

guys …i feel something is missing . I’m on Mint now for , idk, a month or two ?

I’m bored outa my mind , there is nothing to do , nothing to troubleshoot , nothing to fix .

It doesn’t feel like Linux lol

I use to love going on forums and try pitch in or solve something i’m having a problem with , but now …just nothing

I’m on the Mint forum but find myself having nothing to say . I don’t have a question , and I don’t have answers cause nothing similar has happened to me. I feel useless lol

Point I’m trying to make : Mint is proper BORING,every damn thing is just working (for me)

I don’t even use the terminal anymore for anything . Every day i just get a pop up from update manager , I update by clicking “update” …and that bloody it . No fuss no hassle .

oh well, quess that’s a good thing , but still , I miss messing around with stuff to make my PC work like i want to .

PS : pls don’t get me wrong , I’m not dissing Arch . I loved it , but I needed something that just works ALL THE TIME

so yea , now I’m bored

That’s the same as my experience with Endeavour, but instead of being bored, I love it.

good for you , I mostly had the same experience with EOS

EDIT/ADD : something i just thought of and want to add

I’ve been on many distros and their forums

EOS forum is by far the most enjoyable and active/responsive forum I encountered

keep it up ppz !

Linux Mint is a Great Distro. Not only it works just fine but also it is the gateway to Linux for many users. So hat off for the Mint Team.

If you love the boredom of Mint and want to tinker, I’ll give you a tip…

Switch to MX Linux and learn how to use and master the snapshot tool.
If you’re dedicated, after a week or two, you’ll release your own distro… well, sort of…

But yeah, Mint is cool if you don’t like to tinker. I do, so it’s not my daily. Endeavour is.

You can tinker just the same in Linux Mint. They don’t take away yoursudo from you.
Its package base is not rolling, no, but it is not immutable either. Alright you don’t have AUR either. But installing packages from AUR is not something I associate with “tinkering”.

been on MX before too , it was great until some things started to give me a headache

i have used the snapshot tool ofcourse , but not sure i mastered it to the point where i can built my own distro lol

I’m a noob in that way

They don’t, but customising the system that is fully ready to work does not spark the same joy as building your system from ground up, like Arch, Debian, Gentoo and to some extent Endeavour.
It’s mainly changing the cosmetics.

agree 100%

The secret ingredient is throwing config files into /etc/skel directory.
If you then choose the option to create a distributable ISO, the config files will be transferred to the live session.

Alright, if by tinkering you mean this. Then I’ll give it to you.

If it is joyful to use a system like Mint, then it comes down to the realm of subjectivity.

see , that’s way over my head lol

There are quite some people in this forum using other distros, but are here anyway to stick with the community. I think you’ll always be welcome

yea i had more replies on this simple thread in 10 minutes , than i had replies on Mint forum for a proper question …

plus their forum UI is , well , goddamn ugly and old school (IMO)

they use phpBB software where EOS use much more modern discourse

it’s old school and very boring lol

I’m usually just a silent reader, but I had to drop a comment on this post just for you, @3nd

When I bailed on WIN, INC almost a decade ago it was common knowledge that MINT was WIN NOOB-friendly.

So I installed it as my First Linux Experience.

I thought I was using Win 7. ZZZZZZ. that install lasted 10 minutes and I did not ‘get it’ or see the challenge. Felt like a big miss for me.

I get your joke though: no drama, nothing to fix no livin on the edge

You can always home lab if you’re bored!

Same here on EOS but it’s not boring. That’s why i don’t use Mint!