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I'd recommend against Ubuntu. It uses snaps and it'll teach you that the hard way eventually by having very weird issues.
Mint is based on ubuntu but says no to snaps, so that's a good place to start.
What about PopOS? Is it any good? Seems nice.
It's plenty good out of the box, it was my first distro and I had a great time with it. But after learning more about what I like about a distro I ended up changing. But I'm glad it was my first 😉
Niice! What did you like about it and what did you switch to. I'm on Ubuntu LTS right now. I just worry about driver issues, as everything I have hooked up seems to just work.
As it was my first distro I felt that most things just worked out of the box, compared to what I have learned and experienced on other distro. It has good Nvidia support which is why I chose it. I only switched as I want to distro hop to find what I like the best and to learn 🙌
Considering PopOS is well maintained and supported by System76 I wouldn't worry about driver issues.
Yeah, they seem neat. I just have a display link USB video card that support is tricky for.