I installed Linux Mint for the first time on my personal Laptop just a few months ago, and it ran so well that I didn't want to mess with it to try out different distros.
But today, my company's IT department announced that they have some spare old Laptops to give away (technically because they didn't meet the specs for Windows 11, didn't stop the IT department from giving them out with Windows 11 pre installed though)
So now I got a few devices to play around with!! They're a Precision 7530 and a Latitude 7390 2-in-1!
I already got ZorinOS running on the little guy because apparently Zorin is nice for Touchscreen support. For the big guy I was initially thinking that I could try Bazzite, but the installer was like "Intel UHD Graphics aren't really recommended" so I might try something else first. Any recommendations? I mainly just want to try as many different flavors of Linux as I can haha
I always wonder why mint is the one people try. It seems so out of date.
Fedora these days works really well and is really up to date.
Is there something wrong with mint?
Personally the ui looks a bit outdated and there's less customization than most other distros
a bit is an understatement. reminds me of windows 7 era ux design. iirc their wayland support isn't that great either.
not that it doesn't work, but there are alternatives that much better represents what linux can be right now.