At the moment I am using mint-kde on my workstation and I stick to the long support versions because I don't really like to reinstall my system each 9 months (y

At the moment I am using mint-kde on my workstation and I stick to the long support versions because I don't really like to reinstall my system each 9 months (yep I know I can save all there is in my home and the list of installed packages, but I lose all the /etc configuration file and I have a lot of configuration files on it). Of linux mint I love the fact is well supported, there is a community around it almost comparable to that of ubuntu (and you usually can solve problem of mint also looking at solutions based on debian and ubuntu) and all DEs work perfectly if you want to constantly switch. On servers I usually just run ubuntu lts or debian stable based on the requirements A question: why you speak about buying a new machine to run linux? If you have a macbook it is perfect for linux, I am waiting to have enough money to buy one with the explicit purpose to run linux on it