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Instead of mint, if you are doing a new install and looking for a minimalist approach with i3, consider wattOS distro microwatt edition.

I found it on distrowatch; I installed it about 6 months ago on an old laptop and I'm pretty happy with it.

Thanks for the response, is that based on debian/ubuntu? I need to have that environment to mirror production environments.

Yes.

"wattOS is a lightweight Linux operating system remastered from the core Ubuntu Linux build."

I did not know the existence of this distribution, thanks i'll look into it.