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    Hey you, you wanna install Linux? (files.catbox.moe)
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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Mint is good but if you want the best touch screen support with gestures and an automatic on screen keyboard, you will want a distro that is using the gnome desktop environment (it is also android-like). Well known distros that come with this are Fedora Workstation, ZorinOS, and Ubuntu.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Interesting. I thought Mint was a version of Ubuntu.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

    It's based on it yes, but they use different desktop environments. The desktop mint uses is called Cinnamon.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    its a fork of, downstream, tears out a bunch of the annoying shit and has different ux.

    [–] ReveredOxygen 2 points 6 months ago

    It's a (better IMO) derivative of Ubuntu, but it uses the Mint desktop environment by default while Ubuntu uses Gnome. To a casual user, most distros are pretty similar other than their defaults. Those defaults aren't even particularly hard to change. For example, switching mint to Gnome is one command and a couple GUI clicks: https://itsfoss.com/install-gnome-linux-mint/