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Linux mint is now 18 years old!!! 🎂 🥳
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Linux Mint with Mate has been my primary distro for probably at least 6 years now. I do all my class prep, game development, and video making there. 😎
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Mint was my first serious distro after Ubuntu. I mained it for years until I moved onto Fedora and Arch (and now Tumbleweed). It's such an incredible distro!
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I've started to use this year on my old gaming laptop. Definitely convinced me to make the move away from Windows for my main computer in the near future.
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I LOVE Linux Mint! In fact I'm still using Linux Mint! In 2021 I got bored and said "Hey, why not try to switch to Linux? Most of the software I use is FOSS, it couldn't hurt", and I did. I installed Linux Mint as a dual-boot with Windows!

In 2022 I got a new computer. I tried to install Linux Mint as a dual-boot with Windows to it as well, except things went wrong with the installation, and I got some sort of Linux phobia from it. I ended up using Windows only for a couple months. In October that year, I re-gained the courage to re-install the Mint partition, and everything went well!

I'm still using Mint on that computer. I'm typing this from here. I rarely boot into Windows (usually to play games). As I said before, I absolutely love Linux Mint! Happy birthday!

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just today I installed Mint on a 2019 Vivobook that I will be donating to someone who can't afford to replace his 10+ year old netbook
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Why does this image look like a ladbrooks/paddypower ad ?
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I did some distro hopping after I saw Canonical take a route I didn't like (way back when) and found Linux Mint to not only be very simple, but also to have the Mate desktop environment 🥰
It now lives on a live-usb that I have "in case of emergency", but when the time comes (and if my gaming laptop is compatible) I will remove Windows 😊 and install Mint 🥰
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Linux Mint is amazing, it's the first thing I installed on my desktop when I built it in 2014 (Mint MATE 17.1). A year later I installed Windows 7 in a dual boot since I needed it and didn't want to use my old HP laptop for it too much because it was at the point I was unsure about it. Eventually I just ended up mostly using Windows enough so I used the Mint disk for media and was on Windows on it until this year when I installed EndeavourOS on an NVMe drive. I miss Mint KDE 4.
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um yeah… once almost made a distro from it… but:
firstly it broke due to btrfs FS and was getting stuck even before grub…
and secondly it turned out that it were just dotfiles… :blobcatfacepalm:
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Linux Mint can vote in the US now?! Happy birthday, Mint!
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I didn't used it personally, but I heard great things about it! My friends used it and they really praised it.
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While Mint wasn't my first ever distro (that would be Lubuntu 18.04), Mint was the first distro I picked after I got fed up with Windows and decided to only use Linux. I have since changed distros multiple times but Mint will always be one of my favorite distros ever
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I have been using Linux Mint fulltime since 2017. It just works. I have even installed it on old 2010 era iMac's and Mac Mini's. Mint is my go to distro.
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While I tried Linux Mint several times over the years, I never stuck to it personally. I eventually went to EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma and that's where I still am.

I do sometimes recommend it to others though...

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Over the summer I tried Linux for the first time by installing Mint on a computer that’s as old as Mint is! https://fosstodon.org/@_mosso/112944770893809180
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@_mosso Great going! Try some other distros when you are in the mood to distrohop! 😄
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One time I tried Linux Mint, but Cinnamon was broken and realized it hadn't been patched in almost a year and never tried Linux Mint ever again.
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I found a stack of Mint install CDs in the spring, going back to my first, #LinuxMint 5 in 2008! After copying them back.to ISO files, I have a Mint 5 VM running in #LinuxMintDebianEdition 6, and what's striking to me is how familiar the old system feels. Under the hood it's different, GNOME 2 is not Cinnamon, yet it's still recognizably Mint.
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I love your website, guys! You've given me so many things to think about and suggested things to try over the last several years. Keep up the solid work. 😀
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congratulations #linuxmint ! You're the distro I most often test in my VM because less problematic than others. You're not the first one though, that award goes to a distro that doesn't exist anymore I guess, Linux Mandrake... but that was more than 20 years ago. 🙃 no VM, just a dual boot install.
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OKAY so this one time I installed Mint

and I still use it!

Maybe you wanted more exciting stories. But I like Mint.

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