I am pretty new to Linux (a bit over a year) but to be fair, I haven’t really messed with it. Once set up, everything works, so I never really use the terminal. to me, it is just an OS, and i don’t mess under the hood with it.

I use Mint (Cinnamon) and I am pretty happy with it. My thoughts now are, with a new PC comming, if I should stick to Mint, or install an other distribution?

I use it mainly as a home desktop, but also do some image editing, video editing, learning CAD at the moment and of course a bit of gaming (through Steam)

Any advice is welcomed

  • @Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6•1 day ago

    Finally gave in and tried Mint recently when my Ubuntu was crapping out on me. It turned out to be a BIOS issue that I subsequently fixed, but I’m glad I did it, because it is the very first time for me when a linux install went smoothly and got me doing what I wanted without making me tear out my hair for hours at a time.

    It actually felt better than a Windows install because on top of being smooth, it didn’t bombard me with dark pattern data mining AI-riddled trash.

    I can’t ditch Windows entirely because of a handful of things that cannot run without it, but for the first time Linux has become a daily driver for me.

    So yeah, I would stick with Mint. Turns out the hype was real.