I’ve never heard of John Bolduan until I kliked on this video. What strikes me about it is not his technical expertise or that he did something particularly awesome or stupid. He just tried a different Linux distro, he distrohopped as we call it in Linux circles. As I said, nothing spectacular. But what I really liked is his approach to Linux: Like me, he uses his computer to be productive, not to play and experiment around and torture the poor machine to death. By god, and no insult intended, he even looks like a non-geeky, matter of factly got-shit-to-do guy.

I guess, I hope, most of you can relate to that mindset. Let’s watch the vid:

Could he have saved his Plasma install and solved his problems?

Sure.

Was he maybe stupid?

Dunno. Probably.

Does it matter?

Nope.

Was his decision to switch back to Mint good and justified?

Absolutely!

Coz, you know, we didn’t switch to Linux in the first place coz we needed a new toy, we did it coz we wanted a tool! A non-crashy, unproblematic, non-spying production tool. I told you often enuff, when any distro gives me problems, or just does look funny, I’m back to my old, true and tested distro in no time. I’m not fiddling around, not reading up, not doing research. Heck, we have at least 600 Linux distros to choose from, so I test them until I find the one that fits me like the proverbial glove. I’ve found mine – ages ago – so please forgive me for not doing mental gymnastics anymore when it comes to Linux.

And with Mint he didn’t go wrong. He used it up to one day before, and he was satisfied, so going back to that particular distro was the best he could do. And did you listen to him? He only needed a little over an hour to do the switch … on 3 machines! That’s great, innit? And although I would’ve recommended him to use Manjaro instead, basically you just can’t ever go wrong with Linux Mint.