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I've been using Linux Mint since forever. I've never felt a reason to change. But I'm interested in what persuaded others to move.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Today on Intel i7/Xeon with 16gb ram I go from a stage3 to full GUI (plasma, no libreoffice or such) in a few hours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I've considered giving it a go again since I have a 24 core Threadripper which could easily compile everything pretty quickly, I just never got around to it.