Ubuntu is developed and controlled by a corporation (canonical) and they have some non ideal practices (like pushing snaps heavily instead of the more open flatpaks or native apps). Mint takes what’s good in Ubuntu and cleans it up a lot.
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ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 2 months agoWhy do you suggest Mint over Ubuntu?
accideath@lemmy.world 2 months ago
DannyMac@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Snaps probably 😆
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Because fuck snaps
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
Mint XFCE feels significantly more familiar to a Windows environment than default Ubuntu or Xubuntu (ubuntu with XFCE desktop), making the migration “less painful”;
The ISO image is ~1GB smaller \