I know this might be a couple months old, but I didn’t know we already passed 4%.

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      My wife struggles with tech, she had such a hard time with windows, and the slowness of it was making her wxperience worse. I put GNOME DE on her old laptop, she can be autonomous now

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      What’s your review of LMDE over Debian? I recently took the Linux desktop jump recently and started with Linux Mint.

      I really didn’t like the Mint desktop as it seemed very dated, so I’ve switched to Debian/KDE. It was only much later that I realized how easy it would have been to just customize my window manager instead of getting a different distro. Having said that, I’m really digging Debian in spite of Nvidia issues being a headache, and Debian’s glacial update pace making me look longingly at Arch.

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        I also didn’t like the way Mint looked/felt, even though I’m aware of its popularity and good reputation.

        I’m on Pop!_OS which is mostly a GNOME desktop, but they do add [remove] features and it’s very smooth and clean. I guess this is one of the miracles of “linux” where we can all be using “linux” but with 1500 different varieties.

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          Yeah, I’ve heard really good things about Pop!_OS, especially for Windows migrants.

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            Funny enough, if you “need it to look like windows 7” Mint looks pretty close.

            but yes, prior to October my house was 5 windows PCs. A couple weeks ago it was officially 5 Pop machines. No prior Linux experience, except for copy-paste setup of a pihole.