It feels faster and it seems to use up less storage.

It feels like I no longer have to play tug of war with microsoft with owning my own device.

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    8 months ago

    Is Mint the distro that comes bundled with IRC access from the desktop? I remember that being useful when I was starting

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      It could be, but I haven’t used it in at least a decade, so I can’t say. Agree though - it’s good to be plugged right into the support channels for a distro. I do remember that Mint always put a huge focus on being sure that noobies knew where to get help, and were aware of how things “worked” as much as they needed to be. I hope/assume this ethos has continued.

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        Yeah I remember asking this sort of meandering question about how Firefox was only showing blank pages, and someone shot back with “update your system clock” and it worked!??? 🤯 After that, I was like, guys magic is real because I just met a wizard

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      8 months ago

      As a long-time Mint user, I can confirm that Hexchat was (and is) configured to auto-join the Linux Mint IRC channel.