I think I should just choose Arch.
Mint has a debian edition if you’re not down for ubuntu. I use it and it’s pretty solid.
LMDE for the win on old laptops!
(And new desktops)
Wut?
Mint MATE has been my daily driver for a decade plus now. I got a new rig last year and installing it was the first thing I did.
Mint is fine; I use it for my parents to get them off of Windows and for me.
Bonus? No snap. I’m tempted to also move over to Debian now that I know Linux Desktop a bit more.
If you want a smaller stepping stone, check out LMDE!
I chose Arch as my first distro and have never regretted it. Debian is also cool as fuck. So is Mint. I love Linux btw
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)
I’ve always been running Ubuntu- or Debian-derived distros on all my laptops and desktops since I switched to Linux, including those specifically billed as “low in resource use” (Crunchbang/Bunsenlabs FTW). Works great, very little hassle.
Wow, I haven’t run conky in so long; I need to set it up again.
