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      …or mint. Mint is good. It’s based on Ubuntu, but greener and less commercial. Also less orange. And it’ll feel moderately familiar without being even slightly the same.

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    It’s not even over when you switch to Linux as I found out.

    “You’re not using Arch? What’s wrong with you?”

    “Mint is for idiots who don’t understand Linux.”

    Etc.

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      Eh, fuck ‘em. I’ve been riding my Fedora install for nearly 3 years. Never distro hopped. Never found an issue with it.

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        It just pisses me off that people told me for years to switch to Linux and when I finally did, it wasn’t good enough for a lot of them because I wasn’t using the right flavor of Linux in their view.

        But yeah, Mint is fine for my needs- a web browser and a handful of applications- and I’m going to stick with it.

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    Linux has helped me rediscover my love for computers. And the many small and larger hobby projects I can now embark on because of it do in fact help with my mental health.

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      Same for me…I’m a totally different person because I found Linux…If I had found it earlier maybe I would pursuit an IT career but I’m still glad to have a hobby that fulfill my hunger for knowledge and I have a lot of fun tinkering and playing with Linux

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    I used to be all fucked up on drugs, now I am all fucked up on Linux.

    Hooked on Linux worked for me!

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        I have nightmares where the borrow checker is shouting at me incomprehensibly about the literal bugs and I shoot them with the clone laser and the borrow checker stops shouting for ten seconds, but now there are two bugs for each original bug and Tim Berners Lee floats by saying it’s not very idiomatic and I shouldn’t expect to get to work on time if I just keep stopping along the journey to spend all my time cloning the bugs.

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    It’s useful if your mental health issues are caused by Microsoft. For example, if I ever have to go through another license audit, I may have a psychotic break.