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I found the perfect set of instructions for enjoying the work that went into Ubuntu without dealing with snaps or canonical.

They can be found in on https://www.linuxmint.com/

Yeah, it is what I'm going to install on my parents' Win10 machines, but it is also what I use myself at home and work. There are almost no new users I wouldn't recommend it to.

No distro is going to work for everybody, of course, and having the choice is part of the beauty. The mint project is doing great stuff though.

Hell yeah.

I'm on several prescriptions and two of them are from my psychiatrist. So for me it's not just the weed. And my response to it can be pretty strain-specific.

But god damn does it help a lot.

American here and I agree.

Even within the borders of this asylum, the "6 in 10 don't trust the US and/or the average American" feels like it would be in the ballpark for the locals. For the people living next to this shit, yeah more like your numbers.

Yep, looks like it's based on Ubuntu and specifically targets Windows converts with its out of box experience.

Their website is very commercial and "upgrade to pro now" though. If the distro isn't pushy about it once installed, then maybe no big deal.

One nice thing with Mint is that it's still funded by donations and sponsorships, and not any kind of commercial activity. It has that FOSSy aspect of being a good distro just for the sake of being good software for the world, not to be the entry point into somebody's business plan.

It's a distro that satisfies the side of me that's the ADHD software engineer that wants access to the deepest most basic workings of my system, while also satisfying the side of me that's an old man with a lot of non-computer hobbies outside work who just needs the shit to work unless I actively use my super user powers to break it.

Saw it. Decided not to change it because that's how somebody doing the "clapping on the syllable" thing would say it.

I'm picturing that family guy skin shade card, but the top says "decisive executive leadership" while the bottom says "plotting/conspiring."

LIN 👏

NUX 👏

MINT 👏

I've seen plenty of Debian mentions, and no pushback there whatsoever from me.

But if you find yourself frustrated that you can't just have Ubuntu without Canonical's snaps and ads and other ickiness, Mint is exactly that. Or maybe better, I dunno. It's super polished and full featured and stable.

And even better in this era of Windows 10 support ending, the main/default version (Linux Mint Cinnamon) looks like Windows out of the box but it installs, works, and updates at like 10x the speed. (The 10x is an exaggeration for moment to moment desktop work and latency, but for the install and especially for updates I think it's accurate)

They mean to shoot with a bigass paparazzi style camera.

That is way too believable.

This was exactly what I wanted to comment. It is amazing.

I like that it's an old white guy too.