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Mint is such a wonderful distro for people who want to use Linux but don't want to mess with things. I'm glad you've been enjoying it so far. Canonical really dropped the ball with how great a no-config, no-bullshit distro can be. Ubuntu felt like it was on this path 10 years ago before they started adding all the unnecessary bullshit. I'm glad Mint is the fork that picked up the slack.

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>I'm glad you've been enjoying it so far.

Thanks for the kind words. ^_^

I might be unusual, but I never cared for Ubuntu, even when everyone was raving about it.

I like to minimize whitespace. While my monitor is decently sized, too many distros have a horizontal bar on the top and the bottom of the screen. It feels like wasted space. Mint doesn't do that, and it's professional looking. It's dark theme looks and feels great too.

I agree. Mint has been my daily driver ever since Ubuntu dropped the ball.

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