I use Mint from time to time when Windows is pissing me off. I really don't know much about the history or foundations of Linux, just a 30k flyover understanding of software, and a relativity decent understanding on how the components interact with each other.
Mint is not considered pure enough to be called Linux because it installs proprietary codecs and drivers out of the box.
I admit I’m a lame when it comes to this
I wasted a lot of shekels on a machine built for and running Pop OS and I'm too much of a retarded nigger to use it.
Only to the hardcore purists! People like Mint because it just works (mostly.) No fiddling about with configuration files, getting flamed by spergopaths on forums, or having to download and compile stuff.
I use mostly laptops, and I find Windows to be a better native OS for those given the driver support. For getting things done -- the application space -- Linux is much better. Running a VM is virtually free these days in terms of CPU cycles. You want a lot of RAM, but RAM is cheap. The monetary cost is nothing. I use VirtualBox, but there are other options.
LMDE with Win7 in a VB VM, 8GB RAM with a 2+GHz dual core CPU is more than enough.
Right. I mean I am not saying Linux itself takes that much RAM. It's just that you can't dynamically switch RAM between OSs, so you tend to want twice as much "just in case" as you would running a native OS only. If you can predict your workload well, you can allocate just enough to each OS
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