For what its worth, Linux Mint is generally considered a Frakendebian and pretty bad. I used to use it until I did a bit of reading in to debian distros and Min

For what its worth, Linux Mint is generally considered a Frakendebian and pretty bad. I used to use it until I did a bit of reading in to debian distros and Mint's practices. It made me sad. https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/ https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/ https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian The nice compromise that I've found is Ubuntu Mate, which seems to do away with Ubuntu's Bloat and Unity crapness, but still maintaining a Debian distro that operates properly (everything comes upstream from Ubuntu repo's) Just something to consider. People might have some other opinions on Mint which would be good to hear too.