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    11 hours ago

    Speed is relative to the task. On my window’s machine, I’m running a 7 year old gaming computer and never thought that my computer is super slow. Also, after installing Mint on it, the speed is barely noticeable at best.

    I was more talking about lower power computers, not gaming PCs.

    Old hardware support? Shoot, Mint could barely get new hardware working properly.

    This is because hardware manufacturers regularly never release the specs for their devices, so the drivers have to be reverse engineered first (or the manufacturer’s proprietary drivers installed in whatever weird way they dictate). Old hardware has already had this done, so it absolutely works. New hardware is irrelevant to this.

    I’m trying to snap my windows to different ratios or tile out of the box. Mint, PopOS and Ubuntu does not have these features and I was trying to install it first from Flatpak and then in apt-get. Both failed.

    I still don’t understand what you were trying to install? You can’t install features, you install programs. This is the same for all operating systems, it’s not unique to Linux-based ones.

    Good, I can check it out. Mint and PopOS and Ubuntu does not have this feature.

    Kubuntu is the KDE spin of Ubuntu and it should work too.

    What is inaccurate? That I had a hard time trying to install a very basic feature on Mint and failed? Seems pretty straight forward.

    That you’re saying Linux can’t do these things.

    Don’t get me started on installing Tailscale. While I was ultimately successful doing this in terminal, I would not want my mother in law trying to figure it out.

    Why would your mother in law be installing Tailscale?