I just read an alarming number of comments on a distro-inquisitive post about how evil Canonical has been. I had no idea that Canonical wants to put ads on the desktop; I saw literally no sign of even the name anywhere at all, but reading this and seeing people say that Ubuntu shouldn’t even be an option any more has got me concerned about Canonical going Microsoft-like in telemetry.
Unfortunately, I just installed Mint Cinnamon in the weeks prior on the computers of some very non-tech-savvy seniors before reading these. If all/any of this is true, how do I move people who are already settling their personal info into their current build of Linux Mint? Someone said that LMDE is behind in various ways, including NVIDIA graphics drivers, so that’s not preferred, either. I’m interested in atomic/immutable Fedora Kinoite for myself, at least.
I’ve been using Debian for a decade or so and it’s been fine for me. Fedora had its own drama a while back because of Red Hat. I don’t know its situation now. I think the cool kids these days use Guix. IDK what the attraction of Mint is supposed to be.
I’ve never even heard of Guix. Mint is swift to get non-tech-savvy people up and running immediately, with a nice calendar desklet and applets ready to go, and it just seems like more options can be tabbed through without a mouse than, say, Fedora’s UI (like Bazzite).
I set up Debian MATE for my mom and didn’t tell her it wasn’t Windows, and she never noticed any difference.
Given your tone and general panic, I’m going to say don’t look into Guix. It’s technically interesting, but I don’t think it’s for you where you’re at. 😛
And I mean this with love, not gatekeeping.
I glanced at it and agree!