Would encourage anybody on Ubuntu to give Linux Mint a try. It’s displaced Lubuntu as my go to distribution due to it being very polished overall while still being about as lightweight and fast as Lubuntu or Xubuntu.
Sorry, but would like to advice the other way. I started out on ubuntu, but tried mint the last year. Now I’m going back to ubuntu with some gnome extensions, here’s why. Desktop linux in general has many quirks and bugs, and mint, being less mainstream, even more so. I’ve experienced many subtle errors with drag & drop, multiscreen support, windows remaining in the taskbar after being closed, etc. In my experience u…
I've been using Mint for many years, and I've never really experienced any of those (at least not more than Ubuntu or even Windows).