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  • They became split after 2019, with a roller-coaster track of (some) highs and (more) lows, specially if we are counting the marvel disney tv series too (since they are inter-connected now, we should). No genre or franchise ever died suddenly, even DC had successes years after BvS 'Martha is our mother's name' event (which also did make money itself, the loss of goodwill only shows up in later entries).

    My analysis is that most of the successes are prologues of pre-2019 stories and characters, redoubling the appeal to nostalgia and giving an ending where Marvel lets (guardians 3, deadpool for fox marvel, spider man with the 3 spiders and ending current peter's arc). The actually new stories and characters, that should be the ones being widely seen cause they are supposed to star and steer the MCU now, have been duds (and lots of old timers are also having hard times, like Nick Fury). This is a strong indicator of decline, and the fact they threw money bags at Robert D. Junior to appeal again is another.



  • It's mostly an aesthetic choice, a choice between desktop environments.

    Desktop environment (DE) is just the visual bells and whistles that you use to navigate the PC, like that quick animation when you minimize or maximize a program (Apple loves this), a start menu that has cute icons for each program and turns blue when you pass the mouse over it (or a start menu that is just a raw list of program names), etc.

    Mint Cinnamon uses a DE that looks like Windows 7 reborn, Mint XFCE uses a DE that looks like Windows XP reborn, and Mint MATE uses a DE that looks like Windows Vista reborn.

    People will tell you that these DEs will have a slight difference in consumption of RAM, where the most 'shiny' DEs will consume more RAM (XFCE<MATE<Cinnamon) by virtue of having more bells and whistles and some different programs that execute the same function, but the difference is irrelevant in practice (unless you are using a 2gb or less PC, where each 50mb of RAM counts). So it's mostly what you fancy to look at. I just like the old-school visual of XFCE.


  • You are still a beginner, and in that case almost everyone rightfully says to go to regular Mint only, instead of LMDE or any other distro. A beginner will not know how to evaluate the situation in case of troubles or follow any complex instruction (like anything involving the terminal that is not completely copy-paste). Mint is fully click-click-install now, something that no other distro has equaled. Linux Mint, regular edition, is widely compatible with all sorts of hardware, that in other distros give black screens or esoteric deep s**t at install or later, which is a show stopper for beginners just making the transition.

    I myself am not a beginner anymore, and every other distro (save Mint) has failed me at some point. Debian, LMDE and Sparky Linux have not even booted in one notebook, Bazzite (Fedora) has after a few weeks given me a black screen in a desktop pc with Nvidia that i could not solve, and Arch - Endeavour OS - Manjaro have simply collapsed after a few months (probably by using AUR, which is supposed to be their main advantage, but i could not even discover the source of the problem, in each). Everything was restored in order after a blanck install of Linux Mint XFCE, which is the only distro i use now.




  • Eu tenho preguiça de tirar foto video etc, então só vou relatar que eu ainda uso um notebook Toshiba de 2006 com Linux Mint XFCE, tendo só maximizado a memória RAM para opulentos 3 Gb e colocado um SSD de 500Gb. Serve para estudos comuns, ler PDFs de apostilas e escrever textos (obsidian e libreoffice), navegar na internet surpreendentemente bem (vendo aula e youtube, mesmo que prefira colocar em 720p para rodar liso sempre) e páginas normais no firefox (mas nunca mais de 5 abas por vez pra garantir). E usando Ublock Origin + LibRedirect (instâncias alternativas livres de sites comerciais (como invidious pra youtube) para minimar o rastreamento e anúncios, e que de quebra tornam a navegação muito mais leve e rápida também).





  • Eu não ironicamente amo o minimalismo e funcionalismo ao extremo do LXQt.

    Amo o painel que parece um irmão do Windows 95, tudo em texto simples, que eu personalizo a fonte e tamanho, e o tema do sistema eu pus o arch colours dark, tudo fica bonito com fundo azul escuro. Amo quão fácil no painel é só ir com o mouse para categoria e clicar na linha com o icone e nome do programa, nada de descrição inútil ou ícone enorme ou espaço em branco para eu ter que ficar escaneando uma página A5, nada de animação, sombreamento e firulas visuais, apenas uma lista em linhas curtas com o que tem de programa instalado, compacto e funcional. Amo o quão fácil fica achar tudo na central de controle também, e como os menus e opções são direto ao ponto,, apenas texto e imagens simples em tudo, não se pode reclamar de ''inconsistencia visual'' com o LXQt.

    Nem preciso falar que em termos de consumo computacional é o melhor de todos, adoro poder usar computador antigo com boa velocidade e mesmo nos recentes, deixar o máximo de potencia para os programas em si, tipo os jogos. Ter um sistema que parece um mod de Windows 95 rodando um Doom moderno é tão estranho que fica divertido.

    Eu uso Endeavour OS com LXQt, amo os papéis de parede e protetores de tela dele também, tem uma verdadeira coleção histórica lá, com as coisas dos macs e windows antigos. Com a combinação de base arch e LXQt, deve ser o sistema que garante maior longevidade para um computador, mantendo todas as funcionalidades modernas.

    Honestamente também amo o Gemini pelas mesmas coisas, se fosse por mim, nós já estaríamos com Permacomputação a todo vapor e 98% dos designers estariam sem emprego.