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I - a complete Linux-illiterate - have spent the last seven months trying and mostly failing to get Linux to work on my desktop.

What went wrong? Well, you name it!

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[โ€“] marighost@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

I'm glad Mint just worked for you. I installed it on my wife's laptop my mother-in-law's laptop (former didn't want Win11 spyware, and latter didn't want spyware + her ancient laptop can't support it) and they're both running excellently. I use CachyOS on my desktop and laptop, and those run incredibly smooth. Mint really does just work.

Sorry your experience was very rocky, but I'm glad you got there! ๐Ÿ˜