I've used Linux Mint for many years now and it has been the most stable and usable of Linux distros that I have sampled. My wife and son both use it without issue, she being a graphics artist and he in university. We game on Mint and use it as our primary desktop. In addition, I run my small business on Linux Mint exclusively and that requires that it be secure, solid, and without issue. After years of using Mint, I doubt that I will ever use anything else. It's mature, concerned with reliability, and simply works for me. So far eight machines are using it without issue. When I'm asked which distro to use, I always recommend folks start with Mint and then, if they get more adventurous, I send them to Distrowatch. My experience has always been good with Mint.

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Greetings!
I've been stuck in Rust, Dayz, and Valheim for some time now and have been looking at different types of games that may be interesting. This looks like it might be fun to try out and dip my toe into a new world of gaming. So, yeah, I'm interested.

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Quoting: dorronI love Linux Mint, but I'm starting to feel like they are lagging behind with the kernel. I'm always having trouble updating to the latest one because of an old version of libc6...and that cannot be updated! (or at least I don't know how). Maybe someone can shed some light on it.

Everything else is just...a perfect desktop distro IMO.

I use MainLineKernels to get the latest kernels. I've not had any issues with with the kernels installed with it.

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Personally, I'm glad they are taking a more considered approach. Linux Mint has been my full-time desktop for years for work and personal use, and if it were ever to become unstable or difficult to manage due to Wayland, then that would create significant issues. Using Mint in critical environments that demand stability and privacy has always worked out incredibly well and has not let me down. Using distros that use Wayland in those environment risks too much for my clients and for myself. If I want to play around with them on a virtual machine, that's fine, but, for me, this approach is why Mint is the choice for my company and for my family.

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I test Fedora from time to time hoping to find it functional for my use. Now, I will not consider it. If you need to improve your product, get your customers talking and sharing.

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Personally, I think what they are saying is a bit absured. I have over 4,000 hours in Rust and the cheating is as bad as ever. I feel like they believe they are doing a bang up job protecting the players of their game, but in reality, it's not true. They mention cheaters "runining weeks of work." It's that way now and, from a players stand point, little is done to really crack down on it. My personal experience has been horrible wiht cheaters, with over 30+ reports with hackers banned, their system (EAC) doesn't work. You can be "flyhacked" falling out of a mini climbing a tree branch, but not a cheater flying around the map. Happens everytime I play the game. So, no, I don't buy their argument. Let's use the usual logic that I often hear about Linux and gaming. It's touted the platform is too small to care about, so we don't develop for it. Now, the Rust team is saying that thought Linux cheating is almost nonexistent, we don't develop for it. Yet, we'll keep churning out for Windows even though they cannot get a handle on it. Makes little sense. I know there are differences, but look at the numbers. How many Linux Rusters are there? Very, very little. Enabling it to work with proton doesn't seem like much of a risk. EAC isn't that great to begin with in a game like Rust, so maybe it's time to really care for the gamer and find something else that will work the way it's supposed to, protecting the Window gamer and Linux gamer. Afterall, we don't have a thousand Comomos running around to catch everyone. Thanks for reading, this is just my opinion.

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