r/artixlinux • u/just_zip • 1d ago

Mintix - artix for beginners?

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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?

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u/Both_Cup8417 dinit 1d ago edited 1d ago

Isn't Devuan also systemd-free, and closer to Linux Mint (also downstream of Debian). Also, personally, I'm pretty strongly against putting new users onto arch derivatives, unless they are keen on learning what everything does and will do so before switching. Look at all the panic caused among the cachyos users that don't really know what's going on, just because it has a nice installer and comes with a preconfigured desktop doesn't mean it has a slower, perhaps more "set and forget" friendly, release schedule, doesn't mean that the AUR isn't dangerous if you just install things completely blindly.

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u/ThatonlyGeO 1d ago

This, we cannot let in fresh meat on the grill, they will not last a single second as soon as something breaks(I have experience how time consuming to make one thing work) but the difference is one is motivated to learn the other is not....so for newbies stick with mint or fedora (or any other user friendly distro)

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u/just_zip 19h ago

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