On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 13:21 -0700, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Arun, > > You mentioned you are using Mint XFCE. Mint, if I recall correctly, > is > an Ubuntu derivative ( is that the correct word?). That I like!!
Yes, Mint is a derivative (again, assuming that's the right word!) of Ubuntu. One big difference is that the 'guiding principle' of Mint is that it 'just works'. This means that you can't use Synaptic to update packages, since that has been known to break things. You use the update manager. Some people find this beyond annoying, even to the point of considering it a violation of <something>. I use Mint, and I *think* you can still use apt to update your system, but I tend to use the update manager since the theory is that using it reduces the chances that an update will break something. Its been good to me so far, and I've been using it for, oh, I don't know, more than 8 years? --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
