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Fedora or Mint for noob?
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Fedora is not for beginners.
Mint is.
I could go into more detail, but I'll leave it there.
Mint has very nice tooling but its a weird Ubuntu derivate. One day a specific software doesnt install, or you have an XOrg problem that will never be fixed, or standard updates simply break something, and then...
Mint is nice and easy to get going, but its outdated a lot, and uses a Distro model that I dont like to install on random laptops that are never updated.
So you're a power user? Case in point, you'd be better for Fedora.
Also my second distro was mint, after 3+ years of the old hdd's non-use, I pulled it out last year when my install of some OS broke, updated it to zero issues (I was curious), used the software for a bit, all was good.
3 years without an update to zero issues.
Haven't seen any issue with Mint updates yet like I've fought in Fedora
Power users do not care about the distro, linux is linux, they will compile everything how they like it.