You, too, can become a 1337 h4xx0r with this one (1) simple trick: Read the manual!
Which is both definitely correct, but also profoundly unhelpful for newbies. But seriously, there is so much documentation, blog articles, video tutorials etc. for Linux, if you put in some effort everyone can go from newbie to hacker/programmer/gentoo user.
I was recommended mint to start and quickly poked around too much and reached some limitations. Took like a month. Then i switched to arch and have been on that for like a year. The docs are amazing and i have learned SO much in a v short time
I was trying to do stuff with start up scripting and window tile management that my mint install was having a hard time with. Arch and kde plasma fixed it
Sounds like your issue was more the desktop environment than the distro itself. Did you ever try to install Plasma in it? Back when I used Mint, I actually used i3-wm for a while.
Last time I looked, the closest thing to a “manual” published by Linux Mint was mostly a manifesto about why they’re not using various bits of Ubuntu. Sure the good old man command is still in there but Cinnamon is supposed to speak for itself.
True that, it’s more relevant to commandline applications and whatever has a page in the Arch wiki (which is a great resource regardless of distro). Ubuntu itself does have extensive manuals, which are mostly still useful for Mint when they’re not specifically about Ubuntu’s default desktop environment.
You, too, can become a 1337 h4xx0r with this one (1) simple trick: Read the manual!
Which is both definitely correct, but also profoundly unhelpful for newbies. But seriously, there is so much documentation, blog articles, video tutorials etc. for Linux, if you put in some effort everyone can go from newbie to hacker/programmer/gentoo user.
I was recommended mint to start and quickly poked around too much and reached some limitations. Took like a month. Then i switched to arch and have been on that for like a year. The docs are amazing and i have learned SO much in a v short time
What were the limitations you encountered?
I was trying to do stuff with start up scripting and window tile management that my mint install was having a hard time with. Arch and kde plasma fixed it
Sounds like your issue was more the desktop environment than the distro itself. Did you ever try to install Plasma in it? Back when I used Mint, I actually used i3-wm for a while.
Nope, it felt too closed for me anyways. I like arch a lot more. I have had next to no issues.
Last time I looked, the closest thing to a “manual” published by Linux Mint was mostly a manifesto about why they’re not using various bits of Ubuntu. Sure the good old
mancommand is still in there but Cinnamon is supposed to speak for itself.True that, it’s more relevant to commandline applications and whatever has a page in the Arch wiki (which is a great resource regardless of distro). Ubuntu itself does have extensive manuals, which are mostly still useful for Mint when they’re not specifically about Ubuntu’s default desktop environment.