I got a cheap, old laptop and figured I'd spend a summer tinkering and getting Linux running on it. Mint worked out of the box, didn't even have sound card issues, so I had to play video games that summer instead.
The one thing I only ever had issues with on linux was apt being a bitch and once a network driver wasn't available which I could download with another PC and put on there. Was some very niche one, too for a really niche PC.
That depends on your GPU honestly but even that's slowly fading away. x11+nvidia doesn't like a lot of scaling, especially if you have 2 displays with differing resolutions(which is kinda the main reason you'd want scaling, no?). Thankfully Nvidia+wayland now work pretty well and I've used scaling myself.
How is Mint for us newbies?
I got a cheap, old laptop and figured I'd spend a summer tinkering and getting Linux running on it. Mint worked out of the box, didn't even have sound card issues, so I had to play video games that summer instead.
The one thing I only ever had issues with on linux was apt being a bitch and once a network driver wasn't available which I could download with another PC and put on there. Was some very niche one, too for a really niche PC.
Mint is the best distro for Just Working. It might not be absolutely perfect, but it's as close as you're gonna get.
The main issue I had with it was that display scaling didn't work great. It was okay, but Windows really has scaling nailed down.
That depends on your GPU honestly but even that's slowly fading away. x11+nvidia doesn't like a lot of scaling, especially if you have 2 displays with differing resolutions(which is kinda the main reason you'd want scaling, no?). Thankfully Nvidia+wayland now work pretty well and I've used scaling myself.
Last time I tried it 7 years ago it still had driver issues with regular mice.
My parents could use it without any instructions
I was gonna ask this