b1_ 1 point 3 years ago

I wouldn't say I'm that techy and I recently jumped over to Linux Mint from Windows because it has the C-compiler gcc pre-installed and it's UNIX seems to be a better experience for programming. It was easy to install, I find I'm going back to Windows less and less. I used to use Photoshop a lot, now I'm just using Krita. I'm lovin it so far. Only games are a problem maybe, although the game I play has a linux version, I just can't be bothered loading yet.

Linux Mint is supposed to be the easy for-the-layman Linux distro and that's been my experience so far - everything has worked, no issues.

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crystal 16 points 3 years ago

I wouldn't say I'm that techy

I really like the C-compiler and general programming experience

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b1_ 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah, okay, I am a little bit techy, but so far I haven't had to employ any of my limited techy abilities in Linux Mint. I didn't even notice I was using it more, it just happened over a few months that I was finding there was no need to go back to Windows. To load programs on Linux Mint I just google "How to load program X on Linux", and there will be a page saying, type "sudo apt install <program_name>" in Terminal and it always works and I'm done. (I'm a beginner programmer who was told to try Linux for the Unix stuff) .

If you're a gamer, I would look up any discussion of gaming in Linux - that would be my only proviso.

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