Yesterday I decided it was time to switch back to Mint. Funny thing is, when I went to do my manual backup, I checked the date I did this last year before switching to linux in the first place, and what a coincidence - it was the one year anniversary of switching to Linux! I initially started with Mint, then distro hopped a bit and now I'm coming back to Mint, exactly one year later. (I saw the date was one year ago exactly and became determined to finish switching over by the end of the day lol). I have been gradually realizing through trying different distros that a lot of my impression of mint not working well on my computer was actually just me needing to learn a lot more about linux and how to get it working properly - I'm still a noob but I've come so far in a year, and by the end of today I had almost everything set up and functional, from what I tested so far🤞
I could go on and on about my reasons for returning to mint, but the biggest one is that it just feels right. I'm one of those losers who was always a hardcore windows fan but also claimed windows peaked with xp, so the way mint is set up just feels comfortable to me. Plus my whole linux experience so far has been within the ubuntu family, so I'm already reasonably comfortable with how it works under the hood (considering I'm not a programmer or anything, just a nerd). I'm not thrilled with certain things about the ubuntu family and will definitely try other distros in the future, but Mint mitigates the things I take issue with very well, so until I'm better at linux I think this is the best fit for me.