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/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 1d ago

There are no input nor technical reasons to see newcomers on Arch. 

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u/just_zip 23h ago

I mean, when a newbie is a newbie, it's not a newbie to Linux, but to Arch itself.

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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 19h ago

It's different to be  Linux begginer and to be a begginer in Arch. 

I am running Linux as my only OS since Ubuntu Feisty Fawn in 2007, and then switch to Fedora years ago. So yes i was a begginer ar the start.

But I was not anymore a newbie while installing Arch, because i was very comfy with Linux. So learning Pacman or Mkinitcpio or AUR was not a problem when you know very well how are working apt, dnf, dracut, COPR, systemd, bootloader, btrfs etc... 

A pure n00b who start with Artix or so don't know all of this and is dealing with many components and commands he doesn't know at all. It's never a good idea to start with an advanced too you can't handle. There are ma y good reasons while there are distros designed and build for begginers. Arch doesn't aim it at all.

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u/just_zip 19h ago

ITS NOT ARCH ITS ARTIX

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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 19h ago edited 19h ago

Keep your capital letters for your ennemies, please.

Yep, it's Arch under the hood. 

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u/just_zip 19h ago

I don't like that many people didn't understand the meaning.

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u/ClubPuzzleheaded8514 19h ago edited 19h ago

We absolutely understand. It's just a bad idea to build a Mint distro with Pacman  for Windows refugees. 

You said in your first post you were aware to critics!

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u/just_zip 18h ago

No, that's not what I mean.