I took Linux Mint for a spin

7 points

2 years ago

Enticed by the prospect of Flatpak/Flathub as the primary package management system/ app store, and the compatibility with .deb files -- I gave Linux Mint a go.

I tried installing LDME first (debian based), but couldn't get it to work with my old Dell hardware.

So I switched to Cinnamon (Ubuntu based). The codec and driver installation worked great.

Most of the Flatpak apps worked out-of-the-box. There were flatpaks for VScode, slack, chrome, sublime, spotify, etc. However, the Zoom one would not launch, so I had to install from their .deb file.

I could not get Docker's apt repo working though because it was looking for Ubuntu release names or something. So sadly I can't use it as my dev OS.

I opened issues with Zoom and Docker: https://github.com/docker/desktop-linux/issues/190

https://community.zoom.com/t5/Meetings/2024-Linux-Bugs/td-p/159912

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