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What you need to ask yourself, is how deep you want to go
Do you want a DIY distro so that you can fully understand the inner workings of everything? I'd say go with arch
Do you want something that just works out of the box? Mint is great, so is fedora, and many others
But I've found that nothing beats the comfort of a fully setup arch for me.
Thank you !
At the moment I want it out of the box and just work. I want to see natively how much of my workflow I can actually migrate across. I am however a brute in my day job and have no doubt that once I'm relatively comfortable with some form of Linux I will stretch it and eventually head somewhere I can fully customise like Arch.
I'm semi Linux literate as I manage a number of web servers so I understand the absolute basics. No more, no less :)
Please feel free to message me on matrix if you have any questions, I love helping people with linux.
Thanks so much ! I really appreciate it..... I have literally just hit the install button so no going back now :)
Enjoy, although do note, linux mint is an intentionally out of date distribution, which may make the wayland experience suboptimal, I'd stick to x11 until that situation is sorted, unless you're on a rolling release bleeding edge distro like arch, it might not be very comfy.