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I can say that Mint, from a zero experience Linux person was really easy to kick off and install on an older Thinkpad. All drivers were there for every day functionality. I was able to load and specialty driver for one of my printers as well. Overall, mint for a newbie installed and functioned with ease, highly recommend. I have been on windows since the 3.0 / 3.11 days.
Note- this experience is solely based on a stand alone PC, no 3rd party apps other than a zebra driver.
Yeah, Mint and Bazzite in particular sound like some of the better installation experiences I've seen from Linux.
I had a few problems from Nobara, and Wayland always gave me problems on desktop that I couldn't successfully rid myself of and at the time IIRC Wayland was the only thing that worked properly with GSync/FreeSync, or it was driver related issues with the RTX 4090 which is not uncommon with Linux.
Hilariously, I think Thinkpads are probably still one of the favorites for installing Linux on when it comes to workstation / every day use.
I'm riding my Windows 7 key out until Microsoft finally tries to make me pay directly for it, and then I'll probably end up jumping to Bazzite for my personal PC personally. Provided that everything functions properly which is a hit or miss on high end components.
Linux is probably one of my favorite OS platforms to look at, KDE Plasma and Gnome are both pretty damn neat with so many options.
Cinnamon (the most popular desktop environment for Mint, apparently) also looks close enough to Windows that I would be inclined to agree that transition should be pretty smooth in terms of visual familiarity.
Yes I may be nerding out right now about Linux and I definitely don't have 20 different tabs open catching up on things that have changed since I last used it.
I made my Cinnamon Desktop look like the Gnome desktop with a Dock.
Main Panel on top, made it smaller, put the clock in the middle, added an extra „power off“ applet in the top right corner and added a dock (Plank) on the lower edge, plus replaced the icons with a more appealing set - couldn‘t be happier.
Edit: I have to add, I started with Mint a month ago, then tried out CachyOS (Arch based) and Fedora KDE and Fedora Gnome, but nothing came close in stabilty and useability to Mint. If you don‘t have the newest hardware, Mint completely delivers. Might be a bit different with the latest GPU or other components, because most of the drivers are implemented in the Kernel of the distribution. And Mint is on a bit older Kernel, so not quite up to date with the latest and newest hardware.
As a rule of thumb, if your hardware is older than about 2 years, Mint should work just fine. If it‘s newer, a more up to date distro like Fedora (Nobara, Bazzite) or Arch (EndevourOS, CachyOS, Manjaro) might be better.
And that's why Linux is ultimately the best, being able to personalize so many different ways.
Well, and the fact that you don't have to run a script to turn off most of the telemetry like you do with Windows.
It's all I have ever used it seems like. Used dell for a bit and HP. My corp switched to HP, I stuck with my old thinkpad (X240) versus upgrading. It's so bad since I can only use a laptop with the pointer on the keyboard. When I had an HP for a bit, I bought and swapped out my keypad to one with a pointer built in. Old habits are hard to break. They're tanks. Back to Mint, it's one and done on my thinkpads. I will never go back to windows. I also need to get a deeper understanding of Linux as well. Implementing a NAS at home and most seem to be some flavor of Linux.
My friend installed Ubuntu on his Mac and thought it was alright, but then he tried Mint and liked it better. Mint is based on Ubuntu, but goes an extra step to win over converts.