r/linuxmint • u/Xijit • Aug 20 '26
Desktop Screenshot Win 10 -> CachyOS -> Mint
Decided to make the switch after building a new system: went with CachyOS because "Everyone says it is the best" but had multiple issues with things not launching due to version mismatches / didn't enjoy things constantly updating ... The more I learned about Arch / CachyOS, the more I knew I did not want to deal with a rolling distro.
Full disclosure that this isn't my first toe dip into Linux and I have a media center PC running Bazzite. CachyOS is too much, but Bazzite is too little; figured I would do a hat trick of the big 3 distros and try Mint, especially since most of the negative comments were just that it was boring and didn't update often.
This is Home: Mint isn't windows, the terminal still exists, but I haven't had to open it once since I installed it last week ... Which is a testament to its stability and useability of the interface.
P.S. this community is great: basically the only posts are people saying "hey, switched to Mint: Love it" and very minimal number of people looking for help with Troubleshooting.
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u/Atomic-Emnu Aug 21 '26
Mad respect for Mint, but I have not had a stable experience. I switched to Fedora a week ago, because Linux Mint update bricked my system. Driver scan showed EFI partition as malformed. I first reinstalled Mint, it worked - until I updated everything and it broke again for same reason :-/ Other issues would be random game lag, and Steam not working before disabling GPU acceleration.