I went with Mint recently as an initial attempt at linux. It’s clearly not the right distro for me, even a little bit of effort and I would surely find a better option. Still, my bar for success was just “better than windows”. I hit that easily, so I’m very happy and probably going to coast on Mint for quite a while.
It’s so nice not having forced updates, or “Yes/Remind Me Later” popups, or stupid AI features I constantly have to turn off like I’m playing whack-a-mole. My OS is just the same every time I log in. You hear that?… Silence…
I personally would suggest you to keep Mint for the main work and install some other distro in dual boot to test out. Some Arch derivative like CachyOS or EndeavourOS are light fast and have all the latest toys of Arch with included an easy installer and some decent software manager for beginners still not too used to the terminal. Just remember, newest stuff = less tested stuff, so keep some of backup.
Mint’s a great introduction to Linux. when I switched to Linux I started on Mint and stayed on it for a couple weeks before moving on to something else.
Distro hoping on Linux is quite easy. a few years on and I still do it to this day if something new comes out that I want to try.
What are your use cases? I run a different distro on each of my machines. For example, my first linux machine is a server with Mint on it. I daily drive garuda and I bought a cheap laptop that Antix easily revived.
I went with Mint recently as an initial attempt at linux. It’s clearly not the right distro for me, even a little bit of effort and I would surely find a better option. Still, my bar for success was just “better than windows”. I hit that easily, so I’m very happy and probably going to coast on Mint for quite a while.
It’s so nice not having forced updates, or “Yes/Remind Me Later” popups, or stupid AI features I constantly have to turn off like I’m playing whack-a-mole. My OS is just the same every time I log in. You hear that?… Silence…
I personally would suggest you to keep Mint for the main work and install some other distro in dual boot to test out. Some Arch derivative like CachyOS or EndeavourOS are light fast and have all the latest toys of Arch with included an easy installer and some decent software manager for beginners still not too used to the terminal. Just remember, newest stuff = less tested stuff, so keep some of backup.
Mint’s a great introduction to Linux. when I switched to Linux I started on Mint and stayed on it for a couple weeks before moving on to something else.
Distro hoping on Linux is quite easy. a few years on and I still do it to this day if something new comes out that I want to try.
What are your use cases? I run a different distro on each of my machines. For example, my first linux machine is a server with Mint on it. I daily drive garuda and I bought a cheap laptop that Antix easily revived.