Bard on my experience, Mint is probably the best gateway distro into Linux from windows. Debian and Ubuntu forums are relevant and useful. My wife and I are both IT professionals, and mint was just “natural”. She couldn’t care less what os, de, or wm is in use as long as it gets it done. She’s got mint on one laptop and Debian with gnome on another.
Once they decide they want something different they can find what meets those needs nice they have their bearings and a “need”.
Ubuntu never really hit home for me for some reason.
I wanted to move off mint, because I wanted the gnome DE. Yes, I did successfully slam gnome on top of mint, more as a can I do it vs should I do it exercise. Then I wanted something further upstream and went to Debian.
Then, I started tinkering with Endeavouros. This has allowed me to learn more about how things really work and WHY they work the way they do. Documentation on arch to me is second to none. Until I had daily driver Linux experience and spent some time tinkering, this was just overwhelming.
Can someone more familiar help me with what this is?
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fries/crisps Baked beans (more sauce than I’m used to). Peas Polish sausage/kielbasa/hot dog?
Please forgive my ignorance. I’d expect this to be glorious or horrible with no option between.