So it’s been about a year since I installed Linux for the first time. I decided to go with Mint because I wasn’t really too sure about Linux. I tried to do a lot of research and there were a lot of good things said about this distro.

For my first experiment I rooted my old Chromebook and installed Mint on that. It was actually pretty easy to do and it surprisingly ran amazingly well. That old Chromebook eventually died but it ran like it was new again until the day it finally kicked for good.

I eventually moved over to installing it on my gaming PC. I was pretty nervous because at the time I heard Linux Gaming was getting good but still had issues. I don’t have a ton of time for games but I was really happy that all the games I wanted to play worked really well. Only one or two had some screen tearing issues but I could live with it. Unfortunately my old girl’s graphics card died and so along with it my first awesome gaming PC with Linux installed. I had that computer going for 10 years and I never had to fix it once, so I’m fine with replacing the graphics card or outright upgrading everything.

I bought a brand new laptop until I am ready to fix up my gaming PC. It’s an Lenovo Idea Pad 3. The very first thing I did was go into bios, disable secure boot and nuked Windows 11 right off the damn thing. It never even got a chance to boot up. Linux Mint has always been the only OS that has ever run on this laptop.

I may end up venturing out to other distros in the future, but I don’t plan on outright replacing Mint anytime soon. I have everything set up exactly the way I want it and I am really happy that this was my first choice.

Whats your Linux Mint story? I’d love to hear how you got introduced to the distro and what your experience was like!