Abstract

• Linux Mint provides a well-known Home windows-like expertise, making it simple to navigate.
• It’s user-friendly, steady, and customizable.
• Linux Mint has lighter {hardware} necessities in comparison with Home windows, extending the lifespan of gadgets.

When you’re like me, you in all probability discover Home windows 11 a disappointment, and you are feeling extra like a useful resource for Microsoft than its buyer. Linux may also help you escape, and here is why significantly Linux Mint is the Home windows 11 substitute you’ve been searching for.

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Linux Mint Will Really feel Acquainted

Linux Mint is an working system (OS) that was spun off from Ubuntu; the place Ubuntu has a extra Mac-like really feel, Linux feels extra like Home windows (one thing I’m going into in my article evaluating Linux Mint versus Ubuntu). Nonetheless, the great sort of Home windows, again when you could possibly nonetheless rapidly discover stuff with out having to work by a couple of layers of submenus.

To get anyplace in Linux Mint, you simply hit its equal of a begin button within the decrease left nook of the desktop and go from there. Even higher, to govern folders and the like, you’ll be able to simply right-click. You’ll really feel snug with Linux Mint in a short time; I do know I did.

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Straightforward to Use and Steady

There’s extra to Linux Mint than simply familiarity, although: it’s genuinely simple to make use of. Not solely can you discover issues rapidly, the format makes use of a whole lot of frequent sense, with controls in locations you’d anticipate them to be. Even if you happen to’re not completely happy, it’s nonetheless Linux, so customizing virtually any a part of the UI is as simple as might be—try my full information on learn how to customize your Mint desktop to get an thought of how that works.

Linux Mint can also be very steady. Although Home windows is not the BSOD horror present it was once, I nonetheless get extra points with it than with Linux Mint. In my decade of use, I’ve in all probability solely needed to power restart my laptop computer a handful of instances, often as a result of I did one thing dumb (the draw back of being allowed to do something is that you are able to do, nicely, something).

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Free Software program at Your Fingertips

One more reason to love Linux Mint is the software program supervisor, which helps you to browse an enormous catalog of free software program and set up all of it with a single click on (and a lot safer than the Microsoft store, too). It’s great things, too: moreover some stable open-source alternate options to fashionable software program, there are many Linux-native apps and even a extremely good assortment of Linux games.

When you’re switching from Home windows to Linux, Mint’s software program supervisor is a godsend as you’ll be able to simply work out what you want and what’s accessible. Whereas some issues received’t have one-on-one replacements (Photoshop is a good example), you’ll rapidly be capable to patch a couple of alternate options collectively.

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Lighter {Hardware} Necessities

Lastly, I like Linux Mint for the truth that it requires far fewer assets to run than Home windows does. When utilizing Microsoft’s dragon, I at all times felt like I needed to exchange my laptop computer each few years because the OS ran them ragged. Not with Linux; even after six years my outdated laptop computer is operating simply superb. It’s nice.

Even when your laptop computer is getting actually outdated, utilizing Linux Mint you’ll be able to simply switch to a different desktop environment like Xfce or one other Windows alternative like Linux Lite that runs cool and it’s best to get a couple of extra years out of your machine. Linux is a good way to make electronics final.

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Switching to Linux isn’t at all times going to be clean, however Linux Mint makes it rather a lot simpler. Although the journey often was bumpy, I’ve by no means needed to modify again any time within the final decade. I’ve a sense you received’t both.