Magnolia_@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-24 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 with KDE and Gnome?lemmy.caimagemessage-square350fedilinkarrow-up1393arrow-down1113
arrow-up1280arrow-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 with KDE and Gnome?lemmy.caMagnolia_@lemmy.ca to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-24 months agomessage-square350fedilink
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down2·4 months ago Older packages, but not too old, generally provide better stability. And worse compatibility. Old packages are a no go for upstream supported hardware like Intel’s and AMD’s.
And worse compatibility. Old packages are a no go for upstream supported hardware like Intel’s and AMD’s.