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    If you’re running Ubuntu as a server this is useful advice.

    If you’re running Ubuntu as a desktop, just install Fedora instead…

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        Mint is a solid choice, but I really like KDE and Fedora saves me the hassle of switching DEs after install.

        But yes, for most Ubuntu users, switching to Mint is a capital idea.

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        OpenSUSE Tumbleweed moment (although I’m still on Fedora on my primary device because moving is inconvenient while at school)

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        Red Hat are no better or worse than Canonical at the end of the day. If you’re dead set on avoiding anything with corporate backing, I guess switch to Gentoo or something.

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          I personally wouldn’t stay away from Ubuntu just because of petty nerd shenanigans like this one. At the end of the day it’s still a very mature and beginner friendly distro.

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          Just use Fedora. In my opinion, it’s the new gold standard for standard use Linux distributions.

          If you really want an Ubuntu base, Pop!_OS is also good. They’re working on making their own desktop environment, which is looking pretty sweet.

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      It’s centralized and controlled by Canonical, it enforces updates and you can’t disable it, sometimes when you uninstall snapd it cames back when you apt update and most importantly, it is painfully slow.

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    whem/if i do get a computer i’m thinking of dualbooting windows and linux mint (since the only computer I have is a school laptop that runs windows)

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      That’s how I started out! It was a pretty decent experience.

      However, I would rate Debian as a slightly better choice over Mint. You see, Mint is a fork of Ubuntu (which is a fork of Debian). So when I needed to troubleshoot an issue, instead of just googling “Linux Mint [my issue]”, I actually sometimes had to google “Ubuntu [my issue]”, or even “Debian [my issue]”, depending on the situation. This is because Mint and Ubuntu share large similarities with Debian, but with certain particular differences; for any given situation, I didn’t necessarily know which differences played a role. This is actually why I switched to Debian; I figured, my experience was going to be basically exactly the same, just with more straightforward troubleshooting.

      If you’re worried about user-friendliness, then the good news is that’s largely to do with your desktop environment (GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, etc). Whichever one you pick, it will pretty much feel the exact same no matter whether the underlying distro is Debian, Ubuntu, or Mint. Especially because they’re all Debian-based.