I’m going to start this article off by saying that you don’t have to be born in the boomer generation to be a boomer. You can be a boomer by acting like one. Hate new stuff? boomer. Run…

I’m going to start this article off by saying that you don’t have to be born in the boomer generation to be a boomer. You can be a boomer by acting like one. Hate new stuff? boomer. Run a desktop from the naughties? Boomer.

  • LainOfTheWiredEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I wouldn’t call mint old. It has

    • Massive repos and tons of 3rd party ones
    • A reasonably modern desktop environment( if you don’t like it get a theme pack, or are you to lazy to install a theme.)
    • Stability which most new users will value a lot, as I’m sure they don’t want to learn exactly how Linux works on day 1.
    • Everything just works out the box on reasonably well supported hardware( aka the manufacturer gives a dam about Linux users or it’s a thinkpad)

    So I don’t see how mint is a boomer OS because unless you’re a dev or an enthusiast it has everything you need

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      21·
      6 months ago

      So I don’t see how mint is a boomer OS

      It’s what I put on my dad’s laptop, so in his case it’s literally BoomerOS.

      • LainOfTheWiredEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Well with that logic Windows, MacOS, iPadOS, ChromeOS, and Ubuntu are also boomer OS’s