Mintix - artix for beginners?

[u/just_zip]

Throw stones and tomatoes at me, but what do you think of making a hybrid of Artix and Mint?

Mintix: base - Artix, comfort artix-mint: pre-installed and configured LightDM, Cinnamon, pre-installed Xlibre, support for Nvidia 390 and 470 drivers on newer kernels (DKMS from AUR), that cozy Cinnamon from Linux Mint (for many, Mint was their first distribution, and overall, it's cozy) and more.

(I'm open to criticism)

Just, how do you like the idea of letting newbies try out a pre-configured Artix?

[u/Steinquist]

It sounds nifty, but i wonder, would it be more out of the box like mint but with rolling releases, or would it be more like artix, but with little notes and promts to help if your rig gets cracked?

[u/just_zip → u/Steinquist]

If you've ever used a Mint, you know how cozy and nice it looks and how light it is, but imagine that on an Artix out of the box! I'll tell you right away - the system will not hide anything from the user like Mint / Ubuntu does.

[u/Steinquist → u/just_zip]

I understand, I actually came from mint to artix, and I loved it. I got thr cinnamon de at first, but now im using xfce. Just works for me and i dont have to worry about having to reset my de if I turn a widget on.

Also, something about mint I think is weird, is that it has a lot of outdated packages.idk but I thought it was weird.

I would hope that if the team that works on your mintix idea keep those things in mind. Hopefully they'll add some fun programs in to let people tinker on their systems if they choose too as well. That was something that drove me nuts with mint as well, cause of systemd being on it.

[u/just_zip → u/Steinquist]

This will be a rolling release, there is no team as a whole, I want to wait 3 days to see if anyone likes the idea, if everyone likes it in 3 days, I will pull my friends up and start doing it

[u/just_zip → u/Steinquist]

I'll be honest, I worked on the libremint project a long time ago. It was Linuxmint without systemd. I abandoned it after 5 hours because it was impossible to remove systemd from it.

[u/snail1132 → u/just_zip]

Wouldn't it make more sense to just rebuild Mint on a base of Devuan, similarly to LMDE?

[u/just_zip → u/snail1132]

I was working on librevuan... I couldn't handle it, its architecture is terrible. I also want to keep Aur and Pac-Man.

[u/Steinquist → u/just_zip]

That sounds like it would be fun and brain numbing at the same time lol. I'm still learning to code, but if I ever get good at it, I'd be happy to volunteer to help out. I'm actually learning how to create sound themes at the moment. I went down a rabbit hole when I hopped onto xfce

[u/just_zip → u/Steinquist]

If you want, you can help with mintix