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Comment by appleorchard46

5 days ago

Mint is one you'll often see recommended for older folks, for good reason. The Cinnamon desktop is simple and familiar to Windows users and it has good compatibility. The only real gotcha is being based on Debian (like Ubuntu), so packages will be somewhat out of date, but for browsing and printing and whatnot that's not really an issue.

Anecdotally my experience with printing on Linux has actually been smoother than Windows in recent years, but we're talking about printers here so YMMV.

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mightysashiman  3 days ago

Used LinuxMint for years as the goto Linux distro in a VM on Mac Intel. Since I moved to Apple Silicon, Mint can't run since they unfortunately don't provide ARM builds . what would be the compatible alternative ?

  • appleorchard46  2 days ago

    Asahi is what the project to get Linux running on modern macs is called. For a stable Mint-like experience there's a Debian version (Mint is based off Debian) that includes the Cinnamon desktop as an option in the installer, so that would be most similar to what you're familiar with. (worth mentioning though that Fedora is the flagship Asahi version, so that may be more stable. I don't have personal experience)

    https://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/m1-debian/

stop50  5 days ago

Printing on Linux is very nice. The bloatware that is usually unavoidable under windows does not exist.

  • Doxin  4 days ago

    I have yet to run into a printer that doesn't just magically work under linux. It's very impressive.