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The Dislike to Ubuntu
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this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2024
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There are just better noob-friendly distributions, like LinuxMint.
I watched a video of a Linux noob trying it for the first time. They chose Mint, and a significant amount of problems arose from the fact that mint is still on an old kernel version, and there was little to no indication from the OS or from cursory googling that updating it would fix the issue or even that you should do that.
Mint uses the same kernel version as Ubuntu, so that's not really a point in favor of Ubuntu in any case. Do you remember what video it was?
https://youtu.be/8WkcLwXCFJQ
Nice, I'll have to watch this. A quick skim through the YT comments says that it's AMD drivers which is the only thing I could think of. Linux Mint 21 actually has an "EDGE" iso which has a newer kernel version, and Linux Mint 22 is instead going to track the latest HWE kernels, so my understanding is this type of hardware problem should be a thing of the past at least in Linux Mint's world. I don't know if Ubuntu has their own plans or not.
It literally says on the website where you download it, if you have new hardware to use the Edge Edition (though it's not there right now, likely because the current Mint version already has a new kernel)
If you open up the kernel manager you can switch to a newer release
Also I think they now have a version with a newer kernel
That's obvious to you to do, yes. You have experience with Linux.
Its a gui