Reply to post: Re: Debian isn't remotely difficult to install

Must 'completely free' mean 'hard to install'? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community

tfewster
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Re: Debian isn't remotely difficult to install

> The people who publish Mint care about ease of use, which is what makes it a good distro to use if you don't want to spend hours hunting down obscure fixes every time you want to do anything.

YMMV. In my experience, Mint was as full of useless cruft as an HP PC and an end user couldn't have got it working. Though once I'd put a few days into cleaning & stabilising it and making it usable, my mother is happy with it.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=269907#

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