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jellibee wrote

I couldn't agree more here. I made the switch to Debian after realizing the limitations of WSL on Win10. It's been running beautifully on my old Thinkpad t440p. When I purchased a new Thinkpad a few months ago, the first thing I did was wipe the hardrive and and installed gentoo.

I may run into issues but the greatest feeling is working through online guides troubleshooting and solving the problem myself. I accept the challenge gentoo is and while I know it's not for everyone, I;d rather invest in myself -- to learn how my system works and build it from the ground up than accept the work of others because the knowledge is power. I've never felt I owned my computer more.

I'll admit, Gentoo is the formula 1 of linux distros and takes a lot of tweaking and configuring. The best out of box experience is probably mint but that's the beauty of Linux. You can easily boot off a live disk and experiment. Case in point, I had a zoom interview recently and I was not done recompiling my kernel to support webcam function so I booted mint on a usb from an older thinkpad and had a very smooth interview.

tl;dr: I run Gentoo but Mint is still easily a great option.

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