Mike 
blackknight95857669@codemonkeymike
I used Linux Mint for almost a decade with no issues, esp once proton really got going. Recently my Mint broke (hardware failure, was a 13(!) yr old Dell) so I built a "new" PC (friend gave me a 6th Gen i7 so I built around that) and I've been meaning to get into Arch so I'm currently running Garuda. Still getting used to a rolling distro but I'm liking it so far.
@blackknight95857669 I do love mint. Its my go to for other people general use. My worry it's a bit too out of date. But maybe not!
@codemonkeymike Yeah I still like Mint. What they do to "de-Canonical" it a bit I really like. And I mean, it's certainly stable out the box which is nice. I'm actually gonna make a liveUSB of it to take up to my parent's place for my Dad to test out on his Aspire from 2016 cause he keeps bitching about Windows lol.
It might be a bit stale but there's always PPAs? Tho that does get into the weeds a bit much for the average user.
It might be a bit stale but there's always PPAs? Tho that does get into the weeds a bit much for the average user.
@blackknight95857669 when the pandemic hit I started taking older donation laptops (windows 7-8 era ones), fixing them up, installing mint and donating them back out.
I did over 200 of these. Literally everyone loved mint. One person even said "I really love this Windows Mint version" lol.
@codemonkeymike hahaha! Yeah I always run XFCE which makes the comparison even easier. Mint/Linux was the only reason I was able to prolong the previous PC's life span soooooo long. Dell Studio XPS 9000, I got 2 of em for the price of a tank of gas in 2012. E-friend worked at a game dev that was moving to iOS so they were e-wasting these not quite 2yr old systems. Stuck in a HDD/GPU, kept updating GPU. It finally showed the age recently as even WoW went sub 30fps. HW fail meant a mercy kill lol.