Zorin OS is also a good choice if they have a high resolution screen, because Mint’s Cinnamon desktop has awful screen tearing when you increase the scaling.
The screen tearing from UI scaling being at an uneven interval has been fixed with the switch to Wayland. Screen tearing can still happen but it’s due to something being messed up in the rendering pipeline and not an issue particular to mint.
Most drivers are just in the Linux kernel so updating it will fix issues with them, unless the drivers can’t be bundled in to the kernel for license conflict reasons. In which case they need to be updated manually.
Mint has a GUI program for managing drivers that aren’t in the kernel. It actually has a GUI program for most things that would normally need commands in the terminal. Which is why I think it’s kind of insane to recommend anything else to people who aren’t familiar with using a command line interface.
Zorin OS is also a good choice if they have a high resolution screen, because Mint’s Cinnamon desktop has awful screen tearing when you increase the scaling.
The screen tearing from UI scaling being at an uneven interval has been fixed with the switch to Wayland. Screen tearing can still happen but it’s due to something being messed up in the rendering pipeline and not an issue particular to mint.
Zorin user here. Might switch to Mint. Might not help, but after almost 2 years, I still don’t know what I’m doing.
Unless it’s flatpak.
But like, I have no idea how to update my bluetooth driver. And I really want to.
There are other utilities that I can’t install. It’s like the tools you need to install to make linux easy still need terminal to install.
It’s all “you’re missing prerequesits. They won’t be installed”.
So you need to be smart enough in linux to install the tools to make it easy, but if you knew how to install the tools, you wouldn’t need them.
Most drivers are just in the Linux kernel so updating it will fix issues with them, unless the drivers can’t be bundled in to the kernel for license conflict reasons. In which case they need to be updated manually.
Mint has a GUI program for managing drivers that aren’t in the kernel. It actually has a GUI program for most things that would normally need commands in the terminal. Which is why I think it’s kind of insane to recommend anything else to people who aren’t familiar with using a command line interface.
Using Zorin’s Software Updater app will update everything for you.