just saying hi from Germany, joining the lmde users (soon?!). After dealing with my parents laptop again, I was installing lmde on their T480. I was having a try on a virtual machine first and the experience was so good that I consider changing soon as well myself.
I was using Linux for years in the past, hopping from distro to distro, as it is customary
Using pretty much all of the different major de's, I ended up on tiling window managers.Well, setting up and ricing my system by editing all the configs is fun but with tiling wm's it is just a bit too much of "a rabbit hole" and it kept me from using the laptop/PC for actual work
(I could also use that determination and time to learn how to actually code 
) Pure de's like the current Gnome are not my absolute favourite eigther. I think that I like something in between. Mint, seems to give me the "tratitional" de, where I feel most at home but with the right amount of extra features out of the box. I can rice the hell out of it in 5 minutes without having to spend hours in config files. Localization is perfect and there are so many nice gui tools out of the box, that I almost don't have to do anything immediately (don't get me wrong, I feel very comfy in the terminal as well but sometimes gui tools are super useful, if you just want something quick and easy). I can change things slowly over time and don't feel the urge/pressure to set up and configure everything to get my PC to a usable state. In a nutshell "I don't have to do anything but can do everything, just whenever I want to". No other distro was so comfy to use right away (not even Solus, which was pretty good already).Tbh, I still havn't dismissed Fedora. But I usually use the standard or "flagship" de that comes with a distro. Fedora Cinnamon is not on the same level as on lmde (for obvious reasons) and I don't want to use Gnome. So Mint cements itself as my future distro even more. I still have my MBA M1 (yes I got caught up in that apple silicon hype and unfortunately, I love that it is fanless) but I plan to switch to a Framework 13 (AMD) very soon. Until then, I will observe how well my parents laptop is running with lmde and I further try lmde on my vm.
Enough for now... but one more thing... dear Mint Team, just ditch Ubuntu and make lmde your main distro! Thx!
Sorry for any grammar mistakes and typo's.
