Here is what I think of Linux Mint

I have been using Linux Mint as my only OS over the last few days, and here is what I think about it.

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[pmkeith]

A Welsh “robot voice” - how original!!

[guiteo]

This great operating system just works out of the box. I used Ubuntu (since 2006) but switched to Mint when Ubuntu began using Unity. I have never returned, but I always have a couple of Windows machines in the house so that I can access the University work databases that do not allow Linux. My only disappointment is that they discontinued the 32 bit OS (19.3) because I have several old machines that don't support 64 bit OS's. I'm using 21.1 as I type this, and hope they do not do what Microsoft and Apple (and google) do - sell my data to third parties....

[czech_ring]

I originally used Cinnamon, but then I learnt that you can easily have multiple desktop environments installed and switch between them at start-up, so I downloaded KDE Plasma and after Linux Mint starts, at login there's a little button that switches you between desktop environments, so in this case Cinnamon and KDE Plasma
I love both environments equally ❤️

[DalmationProductions]

They also have a Debian version of Linux Mint called Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) which is based on Debian Stable instead of Ubuntu which the architecture is also based on

[peterschmidt]

I've tried live sessions of LM on my laptops to give it a go. I really wanted to like it and I've used it in the past, but there's too many things that annoy me about it. I couldn't get an external monitor to work (which is a deal breaker), it froze a couple of times, not a fan of Files file manager (just some weird ways it works). LM has it's place and it's much better than when I first tried it (over 10 years ago).
I mainly tried it out again because I'm currently running Fedora and while I like it as a distro, I'm not too happy with Red Hats decisions of late. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of developers jump ship from supplying any big fixes to that project anymore.

[SarmadTechLab]

When did you decide to go the linux route?