And then comes the wonderful realm of the BSDs and the OpenSolaris derivatives

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I don't know much about it lately, but aren't Fedora and Ubuntu considered bad nowadays? Mint imo was absolutely great every time I used it except for proprietary drivers needing extra reboots(might be different now)
- AFAIK, Fedora is considered stable and is a great choice.
  
  Fedora just works, it made me stop Distro hopping. I don't want to use something else, but when the day comes on that Red Hat starts making questionable choices, I'll go back to Debian.
  
  but when the day comes on that Red Hat starts making questionable choices,
  Uh that day came and went when they changed CentOS from a downstream source rebuild of RHEL to an upstream dev branch that stabilizes into RHEL. They've now gone off the rails with closing public access to the sources and having RHEL T&C require customers to either relinquish they're GPL right to redistribute the sources or have their support contract terminated.
  
  Yeah, without Fedora for me it's either Debian or Arch. Nothing inbetween. And I do like the inbetween, that is what Fedora is.
  
  I've been a user for years and I would agree with that. The only issue I've seen people have recently are with Red Hat and their recent source code policy change
  https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/red-hats-new-source-code-policy-and-the-intense-pushback-explained/
- I think Ubuntu has turned to garbage with whatever canonical is doing but I do think Linux Mint is pretty great
  
  I'm having a ton of fun with Mint. I'm finding it tight, full of relevant software, and quite configurable.
  
  I have no control over my Ubuntu's updates just like with windows. I'd have to ditch snap if i understand properly, which would effectively deUbuntu my Ubuntu. They have a fairly heavily proprietary focus which is also bad.
  
  Come join the Mint gang
  
  I need to leave the ADHD gang first I think lol.
- I don't really know if they're bad, since I haven't touched either in years, but they're both definitely easy distros to get into for beginners who dont want to spend hours configuring their system, thus them being in the yes part of having a life.
  
  I don't know why someone would call them bad. Especially if you're trying to install them on non-mainstream hardware. There's just more support for them.
  My own journey to Linux started with FreeBSD. Want to talk about hard to find drivers? Now I have two laptops running Ubuntu and Mint, with Ubuntu running as a VM on Win10.

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