Has Linux Mint Killed Distrohopping?
Back in the old days, Linux used to be a tough cookie to get installed. These days, it's more or less a snap to get Linux working on your computer. Perhaps a little too simple.
Linux Mint: The Death Knell for Distrohopping?
When they created Ubuntu, the folks at Canonical created a distro that would spawn tons of remastered versions. One of the most popular of those is Linux Mint. It takes generic Ubuntu and adds all kinds of goodies (including multimedia codecs) that make it even easier and more comfortable to use on a desktop computer.
And therein lies the problem.
Linux Mint may have made things too easy and, in doing so, it may have killed the great Linux pastime of distrohopping.
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The end of "distrohopping"
blogs.zdnet: I’ve seen this trend myself over the past couple of years. When I first became interested in Linux, I remember asking the Linux community what distro I should use and ending up with a list as long as my arm, made up of all sorts of strange and wonderful distros. I asked a similar questions a couple of months back and got a much shorter list this time around.
To be honest though, from a user point of view, this isn’t a bad thing. I’ve tried Linux Mint myself and find it to be fully-featured, easy to use and easy to set up. It’s an ideal OS.
But does this mean fewer distros?