Post #3469109
2026-06-29 11:55 UTC
Linux Mint isn’t a bleeding edge distro like Arch, CachyOS and other current flavours of the month which means it’s more mature which make it both more stable and less likely to randomly come across issues that can cause it to break quite badly. It also has decently put together things like an “app store”. There is also a massive online community for support. For someone coming from Windows with no Linux experience it makes it easier to get to grips with and less likely something bad will happen that would put them off.
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@nootux@lemmy.ml 2026-06-30 02:26
Yup, that was part of my decision making process. The popularity and support community was a big factor for me, this was all new to me, the good community and popularity meant there was a better chance of being able to fix something that did not work as expected. The fact it was not trying to be the latest and greatest but provide a good, solid, stable computing experience for the average user transitioning from windows was another point for me.