Depends on the user’s needs. If you need bleeding edge software, like for gaming, a just works distro can be more work. I loved using Linux Mint, but trying to use the latest kernel, drivers, wine version, and whatever else on a stable release distro becomes pain fairly quickly.
In case you didn’t know, you can get Mint’s Cinnamon desktop on other Debian distros. You used to be able to do it on RHEL, but last I checked the project was abandoned.
When I originally moved to Arch, I had a 1:1 clone of my Mint experience. I installed Cinnamon and had backed up Mint’s themes to just put them into the proper place again. Aside from not installing a number of applications on Mint that I didn’t often use, there was no difference in UI at all.
I only swapped off Cinnamon because I wanted to test other compositors to try and resolve my screen tearing issues which were probably actually NVIDIA’s fault. These days I’m on KDE Plasma and don’t get screen tearing anymore.
Depends on the user’s needs. If you need bleeding edge software, like for gaming, a just works distro can be more work. I loved using Linux Mint, but trying to use the latest kernel, drivers, wine version, and whatever else on a stable release distro becomes pain fairly quickly.
In case you didn’t know, you can get Mint’s Cinnamon desktop on other Debian distros. You used to be able to do it on RHEL, but last I checked the project was abandoned.
Not Debian, but there is an official Fedora Cinnamon spin
https://fedoraproject.org/spins/cinnamon
When I originally moved to Arch, I had a 1:1 clone of my Mint experience. I installed Cinnamon and had backed up Mint’s themes to just put them into the proper place again. Aside from not installing a number of applications on Mint that I didn’t often use, there was no difference in UI at all.
I only swapped off Cinnamon because I wanted to test other compositors to try and resolve my screen tearing issues which were probably actually NVIDIA’s fault. These days I’m on KDE Plasma and don’t get screen tearing anymore.