There are a number of things that Linux Mint (Cinnamon) objectively does better than Windows 11, and in this video I’m going to show you what those things ar...

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The video highlights the following main points about why Linux Mint is considered better than Windows 11:

  1. Start Menu and Customization: Linux Mint’s menu is more organized and customizable than Windows 11’s start menu. It offers three columns, resizable icons, and customizable labels.

  2. Taskbar (Panel) Features: Linux Mint’s panel is more flexible, allowing repositioning, resizing, and creation of additional panels. Applets enhance functionality, offering features like quick desktop access and window behavior customization.

  3. Privacy and Telemetry: Linux Mint is privacy-focused, avoiding telemetry. Certain apps’ telemetry can be manually disabled. Windows 11 is criticized for lacking privacy.

  4. Bloatware and Pre-installed Apps: Linux Mint has minimal bloatware, including useful tools or open-source alternatives. Windows 11 can have cluttered start menus with unwanted icons.

  5. Batch File Renaming and Management: Linux Mint’s file management includes advanced batch renaming with insertion, removal, and case conversion. Windows 11 lacks similar features.

  6. Security (Future Topic): Security is mentioned as a potential future topic, with Linux Mint considered more privacy-oriented than Windows 11. Discussions about security are acknowledged.

The narrator encourages viewer engagement and discussion on the covered topics.

  • VCTRN@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Instead of actual Linux discussions, every day there’s a new “windows bad” circlejerk post.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      And every single one will be met with “I spend 80% of my pc time gaming, my games don’t run in linux as good as windows, end of discussion”.

      Also, comparing stuff to windows 11 is quite the low bar, 2 of those points don’t apply to win10 and the 5th can be done with powershell and wsl1.0 afaik pretty fast. the 5th can be done in windows by running a python script too, and let’s be honest, what is the use case of batch file renaming if it’s not for programming? it’s not a common issue.

      So basically, it’s about privacy, bloatware and security. Bloatware can be uninstalled if you are a power user, and let’s be honest normal users won’t even dream about using linux.

      So yeah. I love it for work but it’s lacking for my entertainment pc.

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
        0·
        1 year ago

        I’ve actually found the opposite, thanks to the lack of all the windows shit on my pc games seem to run smoother. I’ve had one game not run out of the box so far and I’ve played a fair few with either my PC or steam deck so far

        That said I don’t play that many competitive games and I’ve heard their anticheats often prevent them from running on Linux

        • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          To make a list: Path of Exile has given me big issues, graphical errors, and weird stuff happening and the game is already demanding enough for emulation inneficiencies to worsen it.

          About all of the windows shit on your pc, idk, remove it? You can remove/stop tons of windows services, uninstall all the Microsoft crap, close and disable cortana… You either play indie games that don’t require much optimization or semi old games that have had tons of work by the proton team already done. However, love service games are getting constantly updated and improved, for windows, which breaks the emulation efficiencies and need constant maintenance.

          I’ve had issues with Legue of Legends too, and it really sucks when the game closes in the middle of a match.

          Voice processing programs like nvidia broadcast have no Linux runtime, and they are a godsend to filter both my shitty microphone and my friends’, and no discords shitty filter doesn’t work that well at all.

          “game ready” drivers where nvidia optimizers the drives so that the new hot games run better, don’t exist for Linux.

          When you say “all the windows shit”, I can’t really relate since I just open the process manager if anything is running weird, check the services running it, investigate and stop it. I had to do this once or twice in all the years I’ve been using Windows, but strange graphical errors happen quite a lot in Linux. Witcher 3 had some really weird things ha penning when I tried it on Linux.

          As a reference, I had a ryzen 1700 and a gtx 1080 when I tested most of those games. 16gb of ram and 500GB of ssd, and games obviously on the ssd.

          I could go on, but I think that I’ve already made my point.

          • flashgnash@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            The game ready drivers I hadn’t considered, that said I’ve still not had an issue running newer games. Ran diablo 4 flawlessly on high settings on linux with an Nvidia card

            Nvidia broadcast is good but Krisp and noisetorch are perfectly good too I think

            You’re talking about emulation, I’m assuming you mean wine/proton and not just trying to game in a VM. LoL I can understand being a competitive game, I’m kinda confused by path of exile looks like an old single player game

            I have exclusively played witcher 3 on my steam deck and it ran flawlessly, maybe it was something to do with your distro/setup?

            As for the windows shit sure I could go through every process in task manager disabling things and fighting windows (you can’t get rid of cortana without digging deep into your system for example) but Linux comes free of all that crap out of the box and doesn’t make me run around removing stuff from my system

            (Also, I am the worst for not uninstalling things ever but now I’m on NixOS I basically just remove everything I don’t need anymore from the config file and it’s gone)

            Out of curiosity, when did you last try gaming on Linux and on what distro?

            • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
              1·
              1 year ago

              Yeah, ofc I’m talking about wine/proton, proton is wine+ and wine is an emulator whose name translates to Wine Is Not an Emulator, funny. PoE is not an old game at all, and it’s quite hardware demanding, the leader of the non casual ARPG market.

              Krisp and noisetorch are perfectly good too

              Sadly, krisp can’t even compare to the level of noise reduction I get from broadcast/rtxvoice, it completely eliminates annoying sounds (dogs barking, fan noise, random high pitched shouts from annoying friends. I can even even rub my beard to the mic while talking and what others hear is just a slight distortion in my voice. I have not tried noisetorch so I don’t know, but I would be very surprised if they get the level of reduction that I have from nvidia.

              The last time I played with linux was about 3ish years ago. I might install linux on my old SSD when I upgrade my pc and get new drives, just to have dual boot to test stuff without fear of breaking anything (it’s nbd to create partitions and to expand a drive and all that stuff, but it feels like working at home), but lutrix and/or proton were already running quite high and mighty when I tried.

              There’s other stuff too, although this is quite minor, the propietary programs to control the lighting of my keyboard/mouse are not on linux, and those are VERY important (/s).

              it’s not that I’m viscerally against linux, it’s just the reaction i get from the lemmy linux evangelists :sweat_smile:

              • flashgnash@lemm.ee
                1·
                1 year ago

                It’s come a ridiculously long way for gaming in the last 3 years thanks to the steam deck’s popularity

                Depending on your peripherals I believe there are open source alternatives for RGB, pretty sure someone’s made an icue one

                Path of exile was released in 2013 (10 years ago, sorry to make you feel old lol

                Pretty sure wine is more of a translation layer than an emulator hence the name

                • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Sure, as stated (or maybe it was another chain) I’ll test stuff when I upgrade the mobo, and with it add new m2 cards for extra space.

                  About PoE, that’s not really a good metric since the game is being updated constantly with extra content and graphical improvements. You wouldn’t really say League of Legends is old, right? It’s from 2009 though.

                  About wine… Emulators are command/operation/api translators lol.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      11·
      1 year ago

      I thought it would be about ram/disk usage and how they display colours

      Or how on Linux you can bypass the cpu for instructions

  • mub@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Ok. Now, change the audio bit rate in the GUI? You can try any Linux you like.

    The Lack of functions in the GUI to configure Hardware devices is a serious problem for Linux. You can’t Configure anything on your AMD graphics card, set sleep timeout of you wireless game controller, or enable HDR.

    I’m currently having a good time in Arch but I’m frustrated that GUI controls for basic stuff is still missing. Most of this stuff has been in Windows for decades.

    Rather focusing on the how customisable the desktop environment is, they need to focus on making Hardware configuration easier.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      I know GUIs are important for being mainstream, but I also don’t see the point of getting whole team of UI/UX designers to work on graphical settings option to change simple intiger value of system config.

      Changing audio bitrate is an option for advanced users. I open new tab in my text editor, fuzzy search the file and desired option in seconds and save, when in something like control panel is whole journey interrupting current workflow.

    • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Similar one, try to change mouse acceleration. The last couple distros I had tried were completely lacking any config option for that.

      There are already comments about how a GUI isn’t needed or something like that, but Linux will never become remotely mainstream as a consumer OS with that kind of attitude.

  • Rhabuko@feddit.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    Security (Future Topic): Security is mentioned as a potential future topic, with Linux Mint considered more privacy-oriented than Windows 11. Discussions about security are acknowledged.

    Is Wayland support finally actively worked on, or is it still postponed?

  • ShustOne@lemmy.one
    1·
    1 year ago

    Point 4 is only true if you buy a pre built system. If you install the OS yourself there is very little pre installed.

  • vsh@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Points 3 and 4 can be eliminated by using debloating script. That’s what I did. No more Cortana, Edge, Xbox, telemetry working in background and 0 preinstalled apps.

  • jsdz@lemmy.ml
    03·
    1 year ago

    EVEN MORE things Linux Mint does better than Win11:

    • Compiles linux kernels
    • Runs even demanding apps like systemd fast and smooth
    • Conforms with POSIX some of the time
    • Lets you configure everything with text files using ‘ed’ if you want to
    • Doesn’t spy on you so much
    • Rarely shows you ads
    • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      demanding apps like systemd

      Really?

      I know systemd is relatively bloated compared to other init system, but I don’t recall it being exactly heavy or demanding…

      • jsdz@lemmy.ml
        01·
        1 year ago

        I do find it way too overly complex in the design of various of its many parts, but my comment there is what among my people would be referred to as a “joke”.