Mint all the way.

Look, I know that there will never be consensus with this topic, but I genuinely believe Mint has the potential to become posterboy for the Linux boom.

It’s not just about the path of least resistance (i.e., ease of use and learning with safety wheels), but it’s also about setting the fundamentals strong and limiting them to maintainable manageable levels. Which I felt Mint walks the line pretty succinctly.

There’s a song called ‘No More Fucks to Give’, all time banger (you should listen to it if you haven’t), it made me have a small realization that you have only a limited amount of Fucks you can give in life, and I feel like same should be a good soft rule any distro to adhere to.

Absolutely. They will.

With the momentum that Mint already has, it has the highest chance of succeeding as the primary distro for Linux newbies in the coming years.

some long winded thoughts…

Like every PC Semi-enthusiast sufferer of Windows, when I was looking for a Linux distro to respite, I deliberated way too long on which distro to use. Finally I realized that the way I use Windows, I’ll not be able to fully switch over to Linux anytime soon. So instead of burning midnight oil, one day i said fuck it, and installed Mint as a dual boot option. I spent quite a lot of time trying to make the Mint as close to my Windows setup as possible, but couldn’t do fully. Plus the VKD3D performance penalty for Nvidia GPU in DX12 games meant I was never going to ditch Windows as my primary gaming OS.

hmmm… tough choice… i guess… I’ll burn them all! No biases then

so I’m not very knowledgeable about the Linux world, but I’m also not completely green. In my lifetime I have dabbled with trying out 4-5 distros either dualbooting or VMing, Ubuntu being my first experience.

But i feel like, as much as I love our Lord and Savior GabeN, what Valve’s doing with Steam OS is not fully how I image a PC Linux Utopia vision looks like? Maybe i am not able to word it properly, my thought salad, but it feels like there is something missing in the Valve’s approach to challenging Microsoft’s grip on PC market

is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Agree 100%. The amount of “help” content and documentation, both formal and informal, for other distros doesn’t even come close to that of Ubuntu. It’s like tenfold more. And so 90% of it becomes immediately, if not applicable, alteast in the right direction, for Mint as well.

it is OBJECTIVELY linux mint. Why? Because.

this comment was written on June 2025. So as of this day Mint is fabulous. And if I were to save a single distro from a burning building of all the popular distros, i would grab mint twice.

I know I know, there are many good distros, even texhnically better ones. But having used Mint as a secondary dual boot to my primary Windows, I have felt that Mint has been least annoying and actually worth retaining and updating and maintaining.