Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad?
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I don’t think there’s any distro that’s perfect on every machine.
I have an ancient desktop I sometimes piddle around with. I’m talking twenty years old at least, and it could be more. Most distros work okay on it, but mint, even older versions of it, don’t do as well as plain debian or manjaro. My mom’s old box that I also screw around with (heh) is great on ubuntu, and mint, but not on others.
So it isn’t just you, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the distro being bad in general.
ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world 5 days ago
fair enough. I didn’t like the layout very much, but I stuck with it because I heard it’s better for gaming than mint. starting to regret that decision
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Yeah, it is usually better at gaming. Same with bazzite. But older machines can be so damn finicky that it’s rolling the dice if it isn’t something known to work on the same or similar hardware.
Good thing is that it’s relatively easy to switch back. A pain that it’s necessary, but easy enough