Mint. Really. It basically just works. A decrapified Ubuntu.
I’m on CachyOS right now, and love it. I call it “Script Kiddie Arch”. Really nice, but it took some tweaking for my particular setup, no driver stuff, rather my use case.
Since it may require mild terminal stuff, and using the AUR, I’d say it’s an intermediate/advance user distro, although it may just work for you.
Only asterisk I’d add to that is that if your plan is to do any more gaming than just basic stuff I’d go straight to CachyOS, or maybe Fedora KDE, openSUSE Tumbleweed or anything similar.
Mint is great for basic usage, but right now that kinda also locks you into X11. So if you plan to use multiple monitor at different framerates, VRR, HDR or generally better frame-pacing you need Wayland, preferably KDE or Gnome, and Mint just isn’t there yet. Emphasis on the -yet- though. Once they’ve overcome that hurdle it’ll probably become THE unconditional beginner distro once again.
Mint. Really. It basically just works. A decrapified Ubuntu.
I’m on CachyOS right now, and love it. I call it “Script Kiddie Arch”. Really nice, but it took some tweaking for my particular setup, no driver stuff, rather my use case.
Since it may require mild terminal stuff, and using the AUR, I’d say it’s an intermediate/advance user distro, although it may just work for you.
Only asterisk I’d add to that is that if your plan is to do any more gaming than just basic stuff I’d go straight to CachyOS, or maybe Fedora KDE, openSUSE Tumbleweed or anything similar.
Mint is great for basic usage, but right now that kinda also locks you into X11. So if you plan to use multiple monitor at different framerates, VRR, HDR or generally better frame-pacing you need Wayland, preferably KDE or Gnome, and Mint just isn’t there yet. Emphasis on the -yet- though. Once they’ve overcome that hurdle it’ll probably become THE unconditional beginner distro once again.