Unbelievable! Linux Mint Ditches Ubuntu, Will Be Based on Arch Linux Now (April Fools Day Joke)

[smurphos]

https://itsfoss.com/linux-mint-arch/

[Moem]

Happy Easter to you, too!

[Flemur]

Notice: the linked article is not funny or anything like that, so it's hard to tell that it's fake.
Edit: I forgot it was April 1st, sorry for being a stick in the mud. Or whatever.

[michael louwe]

@ smurphos, .......

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Argh.!!!!!!! ... Unbelievable.! .... I'm going back to Windows.

[Sir Charles]

It was about time...

[kc1di]

Happy Easter and April fools day

[JeremyB]

Just click the button at the bottom, Link to Official Linux Mint announcement
Using Chem gave it away, the name is Clem

[trytip]

my arch install was pretty stable last year. in the past week i did a timeshift restore i lost count at 20. the new gnome 3.28 and a whole lot of issues with updates made it sometimes unbootable or frozen unresponsive. after many hours of pulling hairs i finally got it back and working smooth

moral of the story here is use Timeshift it really is a good piece of mind, yup i restored my arch with a live linux mint xfce

[Moem]

Notice: the linked article is not funny or anything like that, so it's hard to tell that it's fake.

There's no shame in admitting that you fell for it.

[Flemur]

Notice: the linked article is not funny or anything like that, so it's hard to tell that it's fake.

There's no shame in admitting that you fell for it.

I forgot it was April 1st!

[lexon]

Happy Easter and April fools day

And try to eat responsibly if you celibate.

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[sammiev]

If only it was true.

[Pjotr]

And try to eat responsibly if you celibate.

I don't like celibacy....

[KBD47]

"Chem's new cutting edge distro!"
Gotta love that guy Chem.

[AZgl1800]

Just click the button at the bottom, Link to Official Linux Mint announcement
Using Chem gave it away, the name is Clem

I was just going to post that "Chem, the lead developer of Linux Mint"


Happy Easter everyone


and this?

Chem says that even if after moving to Arch Linux people call Mint a friendly distribution, they plan to switch to Gentoo and then they’ll see how would anyone call it a noob’s distro while compiling all those packages.

[catweazel]

And try to eat responsibly if you celibate.

I don't like celibacy....

What about suppositories that cause your system to 'crap out'?

... that supository caused my system to crap out.

viewtopic.php?f=47&t=150290&p=784918&hi ... ry#p784918

[KBD47]

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/

[smurphos]

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/

That is properly bizarre - a redditor keeping up the joke?

[vansloneker]

That "Noob distro issue" is a good plot with some plausibility.