Eh Mint has so many outdated packages. I would recommend Ubuntu, Fedora, or PopOS over Mint.
Not a bad choice by any means. The interface is familiar and the base system is close enough to Debian that it’s hard not to be a solid beginner distro.
I had a friend recommend Nobara which I think is fedora based and another friend recommend cachyos which they’ve used without issue for a while. I pretty much picked mint because it was boring and stable
IIRC CachyOS is just Arch with some compiler optimizations and a better scheduler than default…so not what I would call beginner-friendly.
Seconding what marcie said about Bazzite.
Mint certainly is boring and stable. My recommendation is to use flatpaks for your apps since the packages in the Mint repos might be a few versions behind.
I would actually recommend against Nobara and instead suggest Bazzite which uses the same kernel and adjustments Nobara has but with a much larger team behind it. It’s very good for gaming and is a generally more secure OS as it teaches you to sandbox all of your apps.
I’ve also had Nobara break catastrophically on upgrade before which required a fresh install. If upgrade doesn’t work on Bazzite it’s trivially fixed by rebasing with one command, and the upgrades themselves aren’t likely to break your configs which is very very nice.
So yeah if you ever feel like distro exploring, definitely check out bazzite it’s a very new and fresh take on Linux with all sorts of nice new tech in it.
Eh Mint has so many outdated packages. I would recommend Ubuntu, Fedora, or PopOS over Mint.
Not a bad choice by any means. The interface is familiar and the base system is close enough to Debian that it’s hard not to be a solid beginner distro.
I had a friend recommend Nobara which I think is fedora based and another friend recommend cachyos which they’ve used without issue for a while. I pretty much picked mint because it was boring and stable
I think those are pretty bad recommendations.
IIRC CachyOS is just Arch with some compiler optimizations and a better scheduler than default…so not what I would call beginner-friendly.
Seconding what marcie said about Bazzite.
Mint certainly is boring and stable. My recommendation is to use flatpaks for your apps since the packages in the Mint repos might be a few versions behind.
I would actually recommend against Nobara and instead suggest Bazzite which uses the same kernel and adjustments Nobara has but with a much larger team behind it. It’s very good for gaming and is a generally more secure OS as it teaches you to sandbox all of your apps.
I’ve also had Nobara break catastrophically on upgrade before which required a fresh install. If upgrade doesn’t work on Bazzite it’s trivially fixed by rebasing with one command, and the upgrades themselves aren’t likely to break your configs which is very very nice.
So yeah if you ever feel like distro exploring, definitely check out bazzite it’s a very new and fresh take on Linux with all sorts of nice new tech in it.
i have no doubt that i will be trying another distro at some point, thank you for the advice
Inevitable.