F-that! Take pride… Mint is ridiculously good. Well managed, stable, “just works” and yet has all the capabilities you want, including auto-running near the edge for current kernels (backed down to stable) without doing jack (though you can run at the bleeding edge if you want.

And for any haters - think on it like this. I’ve been working with Unix for 30+ years, installed Slackware off of floppies, have built, compiled and managed nearly every distro at some point. I’ve been there for the birth of all of them. I’ve also professionally worked on AIX, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX. Yes there’s a lot of fun in maintaining and running things to your satisfaction, but when you hit a certain inflection point of balancing your real life and maintaining distros across multiple machines and decide “This is the way” - Mint just fits the bill on so many levels. I run it for several self-hosted services as well (hardened) and it’s my daily driver.

Mint is the bomb and I’m done pretending. Fight me.