Ubuntu is great but uses snaps and adds other canonical bits. Linux Mint is essentially perfect but does not come with gnome desktop. Is there a ubuntu based distro that is essentially like linux mint but offers gnome as a desktop?

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    1 year ago

    What middle-man are you skipping? Manjaro is based on Arch.

    Perhaps you meant Ubuntu as Ubuntu is based on Debian and Mint is based on Ubuntu. I agree that I would prefer plain Debian these days over Ubuntu but Debian does not have everything out of the box a Mint or Ubuntu user may like.

    Regardless, do not use Manjaro. If you cannot install Arch but like it, use EndeavourOS.

    If they like Mint, they should just install GNOME on it.