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.
Mint feels modern enough to me yet simple enough for seniors to grasp. I wanted something that could work with their printers immediately, which it did (although I had sure spent several hours getting Wi-Fi and sound to work on one of them, as Mint had kept trying to look for other drivers).
One of my biggest annoyances with Fedora is that you seem to be required to have a mouse to navigate through the full extent of its settings, whereas I think at least a larger chunk of Mint’s settings can be navigated by keyboard, at least in my limited experience (even though the actual main users probably wouldn’t care). Fedora created a popup, I think during sound-testing, that literally could not be interacted with in any way without a mouse cursor that I could find. This is partly why I’m sticking to Mint Cinnamon for even my own machine, plus issues I had with Bazzite (Steam itself ironically never showing a window and only putting itself in the system tray despite what I tried, etc.).