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?
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?