Mint takes all the good work that’s been put into Ubuntu and keeps a bunch of that while not including anything Canonical-specific like snaps. Almost all the typical “how do I linux” webpages new users will stumble upon will have instructions that will work for them. And of course there’s a lot of added polish in the Mint distro.
I also like to point out that, unlike we expect to see with non-free corporate enshittified tech, the fact that Mint has a nice layer of polish, looks like Windows out of the box (talking of the default version with the Cinnamon DE), and installs in like 1/10 the time and clicks as Windows… basically, being friendly on the surface doesn’t mean it is restricted under the hood. Mint doesn’t get weird on me if I have half my monitors covered in terminals, ya know?
I’m surprised LMDE almost never gets shoutouts. I’d assume since people don’t like Ubuntu they’d recommend it over Mint.
Mint takes all the good work that’s been put into Ubuntu and keeps a bunch of that while not including anything Canonical-specific like snaps. Almost all the typical “how do I linux” webpages new users will stumble upon will have instructions that will work for them. And of course there’s a lot of added polish in the Mint distro.
I also like to point out that, unlike we expect to see with non-free corporate enshittified tech, the fact that Mint has a nice layer of polish, looks like Windows out of the box (talking of the default version with the Cinnamon DE), and installs in like 1/10 the time and clicks as Windows… basically, being friendly on the surface doesn’t mean it is restricted under the hood. Mint doesn’t get weird on me if I have half my monitors covered in terminals, ya know?
I like LMDE, but for gaming Debian is too stale without pulling in backports.