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People 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 with KDE and Gnome? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wayland has objectively better multi monitor support in every case. You were encountering tearing issues before switching, maybe you just didn't notice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, I got rid of KDE and I'm on Cinnamon right now, so where are these tearing issues? You think I would have noticed after over a year of use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are your monitors all the same resolution, refresh rate and size?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Resolution yes, refresh rate, no.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

the rest also isn't just an opinion, cinnamon does not have an equivalent to kdenlive, krita, or kate. even the existing applications are just not on the same level. it's an acceptable desktop, but plasma and gnome are just better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I use KdenLive on Mint whenever I need to edit a video. I've never bothered to look for the other two because I use Darktable and GIMP for my photo editing, but I can check to see if they're available if you want me to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why would I care what software KDE comes with? This is Linux. I can install whatever works best for me. Including the whole of KDE software suite if I so chose. You KDE fans are voracious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Does that include support for variable refresh rate with multiple monitor (Freesync in my case).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yes