I use Mint because I use lots of small project software that tends to only have packages for Debian/Ubuntu. Mint also works very well with an NVIDIA card. I’ve tried other distros but they fail to work well with nvidia.

When I get a new AMD laptop I want to try Vanilla OS as apparently it can use any package format but is also immutable which I like. I just hope they have the KDE Plasma edition out by then because I really don’t enjoy Gnome

Batocera is nice too. It’s half an emulation console and half Kodi. You can tell it to launch Kodi as default too. Whereas LibreElec is only Kodi with a limited gaming ability

I like Bleachbit but I’ll check this out

I find Polychromatic to be a great UI for OpenRazer

Glad to hear you’re on Linux, living a more sovereign life and having an easy time with it. Mint does indeed work very well for me too. I put Mint XFCE on a ~2015 laptop that Windows was bloating down to dysfunctional. Now it works reasonably well.

You’ll hear other people say Linux works well until it doesn’t. Well so does Windows. It has many issues too that people tend to not mention. Don’t get discouraged by those people. Most of the time Linux is totally fine for normal users, it’s people trying to do abnormal things that then causes issues.

Use a fork of Firefox that doesn’t do that. For example, Ironfox

That’s exactly right

Don’t forget UBlock Origin and being smart on the web and install programs through the software center

I always encrypt my computer SSD as well as my external backup drive. I just wish that when installing a Linux distro and when selecting encryption that it would work with multiple drives

Maybe Mint XFCE. It should be really nice after 22.1 releases. I always suggest the Crucial BX500 as a cheap SSD upgrade. It’s fantastic for the price.

I think they’re great. I’ve got two Linux newbies running some Ublue variant with no issues

Well said

I’ve got two people on Kinoite no problem

Get it on Flathub and set it to auto start on login in Kinoite settings, then auto connect on application start within the program.

Mint has been the most particular distro for bluetooth for me. I noticed there is a difference between “connecting” and “pairing”. I have to “pair” the first time my device is connected and then “connect” every subsequent time. If I pair the device to another computer I have to re-pair on Mint.

Have you also tried using Bleachbit to free up storage space?

I use a combination of Okular for signing PDFs and PDF Arranger for rearranging pages, etc

Bluefin and all the Universal Blue spins are atomic, based on Fedora Kinoite and Silverblue. Atomic or immutable being the big difference from normal Fedora. The Ublue spins just add onto the base atmoic distros with extra compatibility mostly.

I setup Kinoite (KDE Plasma) on my Dad’s touchscreen laptop. When flipped into tablet mode it works very well with enlarged touch controls and pen support

Look into Batocera. It has Kodi and Emulation Station as the two halves of the OS. You can even install Steam games on it (check RetroGameCorps video). Get a USB IR receiver from Flirc. The one thing it won’t support is WayDroid