no notes. It's my go-to daily driver as someone who has been dabbling in Linux for 20 years. It's as close to "it just works" as I've experienced with Linux.
I agree. As I said in another thread, in 9 out of 10 cases, Mint is the best bet. Stable, easy, zero non-sense. Another good contender could be Fedora KDE (assuming that the user comes from Windows), but it could need a little bit of work if you have an Nvidia card. If not, it's almost as easy as Mint.
Whenever I am loading a distro for newbies, I stick with PCLOS. Nothing bleeding age and everything just works. Bill Reynolds, Texstar, set up a tight admin ship over 20 years ago, and it still just works.
I would say yes in general, but I recently replaced Windows with Mint for someone who watches online videos on the TV via HDMI. There's no GUI way to have the content show at each screen's native resolution. Either one screen or the other has to have missing or warped content.
But where that's not one of the use cases, I would say yes, Mint.
Yes and no. It's one of the best, but the upgrade system is still too convoluted for a newbie. Also, people are recommanding Mx Linux?? You have to reinstall the whole thing at every upgrade, no?
my very first distro was Mint, retrospectively Debian is way better for beginners who actually want to learn about Linux, but if you're recommending an OS for gramps to browse facebook then Mint is the way.
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But where that's not one of the use cases, I would say yes, Mint.
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