It won’t break unless you deliberately do something stupid. It’s safe and stable, very much more like Debian than the others.
ZORIN VS LINUX LITE UPDATE
One reason in particular, which I have written a lot about in the past, is the wonderful mint-updater that allows users to selectively update their OS and avoid the breakage and regressions that inevitably happen with most Ubuntu flavors and derivative distros. While it’s really not “aimed at” new Linux users, it is far and away the most popular Linux distro for that market. It’s “beginner friendly” because that’s how most computer users want things: Point-and-click, no fancy command strings to type in a terminal window, stable, easily maintained, and polished to a high shine without gobbling up RAM and CPU resources. Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux desktop distribution that is not aimed at any particular group of computer users. I happen to think this is a very big deal. I think there’s much more to it than just those things, valid reasons though they are.Īlso, both Zorin and Lite are developed and maintained by “benevolent dictators” whose vision is their own, without nearly as much community input as Linux Mint enjoys and includes in it’s products. And no, it isn’t just because more people know about Linux Mint because it’s been around for a long time and appears at the top of Google searches for beginner’s Linux. I think the developers need to ask themselves why.
Linux Mint is not specifically targeted towards that group, yet it appeals to many more people in that group who want to switch to Linux than either Zorin or Lite.
ZORIN VS LINUX LITE WINDOWS
They are designed to look and act like Windows and be “familiar” to those users. Zorin and Lite are both specifically targeted towards Microsoft Windows users. Linux Lite compares best with Zorin, I think, rather than with Linux Mint philosophically. The philosophical differences between Linux Mint and Linux Lite mean, for me at least, choosing one over the other from bottom to top. Heh heh heh, evil grin.īut when it comes to the philosophical issues I’m writing about in this post, it’s more complicated than simply deleting offensive bookmarks. I actually rather enjoy the irony of it, using his own work “against him” in a sense. But I don’t mind using antiX developer Anticapitalista’s work to advance capitalism and conservatism and all the stuff he hates. They’re not hidden for goodnessakes, those bookmarks appear in their own folder inside Firefox and can be instantly deleted with two mouse clicks! So go ahead and remove the offensive bookmarks and enjoy antiX Linux with a clean conscience. In the end those bookmarks are no big deal if you want an ultralight systemd-free distro without elogind or any of that sort of thing. It’s why I made a fuss over the bookmarks in antiX Linux. The purpose of this post is to focus on the philosophical differences between the two, which probably doesn’t even matter to most users.īut being a person of severe conscience, ideologically driven probably more so than most casual computer users considering Linux, these philosophical differences matter a great deal to me. The only real difference technically is that Linux Lite ships with a highly modified Xfce desktop, where Linux Mint is available in several desktops, most notably Cinnamon which is their flagship. They’re both superb, and compare roughly the same way. I’m not going to add to the clutter by writing yet another “Which is Better” post. There are already a zillion and twelve articles, blog posts, and videos on the web comparing these two beginner-friendly Linux distros.
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