Obviously this is somewhat subjective, but I’ve had a lot of problems in my previous attempts to switch to Linux, so I’d like to create a list of distros to try out, and see what works for me. I’m mostly expecting to be doing basic office work and light gaming via Steam.
Of the 10~20 distros I tested in these past ~4 years, Mint is the only one I needed to go way out of my way to break anything. Also most of what you’d need is orderly laid out in the “Start menu” (don’t remember if it has a specific name on Linux), including there being a GUI-based “app store”, so it’s also pretty straight forward to install most day-to-day stuff.
I thought you were going to say you had to go way out of your way to fix it at first 😂 I was like wait what?
The only downside of Mint is outdated packages.