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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The distro recommendation is usually mint, but I'd like to know, what does your setup look like? (Monitor specs, PC specs etc)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's a laptop with i3 gen 11, 12GB RAM, and I mainly use it for browsing, torrenting and watching movies (4K, connected to a TV)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, then if you like the look of it, Linux mint is the best option

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Looks good! I'll give it a try this weekend, thanks!

Edit: I just installed it, it looks great! I find it very funny that one of the apps I was worried about was the HP scanner and it worked seamlessly on mint without installing additional drivers or apps so I can stop using that stupid HP app

Edit2: I also found out that my windows installation (system, drivers, updates, other files that I cannot delete safely) takes about 70Gb out of my 250GB SSD, even after running many commands to try to clean it up