I put everyone on LMDE

LMDE is great, it’s what I recommend to all new Linux users. Lots of tiny things that remove friction, like not requiring Sudo for apt and showing stars when typing a password.

Ventoy.

Fill it with ISOs

I’m not the only one! Mercurial is so much more intuitive. And it has proper branches!

Or just grab Endeavour

I’m surprised LMDE almost never gets shoutouts. I’d assume since people don’t like Ubuntu they’d recommend it over Mint.

Just ditch Ubuntu and Snap at this point. LMDE is much better.

You do though. W10 EOL is October, and you’re not gonna move to Linux, sadly.

Yeah, just started using W11 for work and it’s insane how often I need to wait for character to buffer in after I typed something.

I shouldn’t be faster than my computer in this day and age, and yet here we are.

Newegg served me well

That one is Canadiab Multilingual Standard. Canadian French is different. Both are in common use though.

Canadian French for programming is great. You have everything you need right there. The only downside is no euro symbol. CMS is something else. It has potential but I find the keybinds less intuitive.

Does it also update Firefox and Discord and the OS and my graphics card drivers and everything else?

middle mouse click is like magic, but CTRL-SHIFT-C/V usually works

I do the same but Egyptian

I use Egyptian gods!

Mint has a bunch of tweaks to make it more approachable. Apt assumes Sudo, typing passwords shows stars, little things that usually trip new users.

You already have great answers, so I’ll just drop my recommendations. LMDE if you want something more stable, and Endeavour OS if you want to go a bit more in the weeds with a rolling release.

In the end, don’t be afraid to try some for a few weeks and find one you like. One of the strength of Linux is that if you mess up, you can always reinstall,and it’s not scary since you did it once already.

Just use LMDE.

I use the same one! It’s really great. I spent an hour going though the options untill I was satisfied.