Mint is for everyone. It’s still one of my favourite distro as it’s reliable, yet not too far behind. It’s also batteries included so I’d say it’s the best distro for learning, and you can stick to it too.
Went to nix for nerdy reason, but my emergency distro is still my old mint partition
And, you can use mainline to run bleeding edge kernels.
I run mint on my laptop and desktop, and its great. Only problem i have is that sometimes i want bleeding edge stuff besides kernel and i cant because its ubuntu/debian based and ill have to compile it myself… Which i wont
Before I gone to nixos, I actually installed nix on mint, and it worked as great as flatpacks.
Ok yeah it’s complicated to use, but you can just use it as a traditional package manager with nix-env.
So if you want more recent packages, you may want to look into it (and ignore the complicated declarative part, unless you want to fall in the rabbit hole)
Mint is for everyone. It’s still one of my favourite distro as it’s reliable, yet not too far behind. It’s also batteries included so I’d say it’s the best distro for learning, and you can stick to it too.
Went to nix for nerdy reason, but my emergency distro is still my old mint partition
And, you can use mainline to run bleeding edge kernels.
I run mint on my laptop and desktop, and its great. Only problem i have is that sometimes i want bleeding edge stuff besides kernel and i cant because its ubuntu/debian based and ill have to compile it myself… Which i wont
Before I gone to nixos, I actually installed nix on mint, and it worked as great as flatpacks.
Ok yeah it’s complicated to use, but you can just use it as a traditional package manager with nix-env.
So if you want more recent packages, you may want to look into it (and ignore the complicated declarative part, unless you want to fall in the rabbit hole)