<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">[emerges from the lurk box]</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>I feel the same disappointment about Mint.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's my distro of choice.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For lower power computers, I like AntiX which is a Debian (Ubuntu?). But it doesn't use SystemD.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Garuda Linux is a very pretty distro. It's Arch-based which I believe is one of "The Hard" distros. I got it running Steam and games. But I didn't use it long enough to find the difficult parts.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm looking forward to watching this thread.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sean</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">110. Labour to keep alive in your breast that little celestial fire called conscience.<br>--George Washington</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 16, 2025, 5:26 p.m. Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I am really surprised and disappointed to hear that Mint's upgrade process is "backup and reinstall".</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">In my case, I have been running Xubuntu LTS for many years. </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I do upgrade from one LTS release to the next.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Granted, I use the do-release-upgrade script, but the GUI equivalent should just be a wrapper around it. </div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Xubuntu used XFCE which does not stand in the way of using a Linux desktop.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">My recommendation is that they try out a couple of distros, using the Live CD feature.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">That way, they may like something or dislike it so as not to use it.</div><br></div></div>
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