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[–] 8 points 14 hours ago* (3 children)

It's too bad Ubuntu went to shit, because there is one thing that's nice about choosing it as your first distro: their version numbers are the date, which makes it really easy to remember exactly when you first started using Linux distros. April 2010 in my case.

But no, just go with Mint these days. Everything good about Ubuntu, none of the bad.

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  • [–] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Another nice thing about Unbuntu was that searching for "Ubuntu your-problem-here" usually gave good results. Sometimes it could be a 10 year old forum post that was still relevant.

    Searching for "Linux Mint your-problem-here" is more likely to give less relevant results.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago

    Mint might be easier to recommended in their next major release, but being stuck on x11 when all the optimisations are being made for Wayland (not to mention features a lot of new users might expect like HDR and fractional scaling). They've also recently had a problem with shipping outdated packages and leaving the repo/support links as is, leading to users reporting bugs which were fixed months or even up to a year ago.

    They're working on all of that to their credit, and their next release should fix most of those problems, but I'm hesitant to recommended Mint right now

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