Mint was my first distro. My interest begun with LibreOffice, then W10 got unusable for me and rest is history.
I distrohopped a year ago but returned to Mint
Just try few of these from live usb and pick what you like.
You can use Ventoy and just drag all your ISO images to it but creating few USBs is easiest option for beginners.
There is nothing bad about Debian/Debian based distros and I think that it is great option I started on Mint, tryed Manjaro and get back to Mint.
I use mint and it is great choice, I am not so techy and it just works on this machine.
I have similar machine, but I run Linux, and don’t have these problems. Not exactly configured just some profiles for different use cases.
It was eye-opening how it got faster and snappier after getting rid of windows. Most apps don’t need tinkering, just installing from repo for me.
Czech maps from Seznam, I talked with marketing boss (don’t know his exact position but it is high) and he told me that they don’t make money from it.
If any one is interested mapy.cz it is must have app for travel in Czech.
If you want it only for SMS and calls buy some dumb brick. But if you need more things from it I can’t help you I am dissatisfied with most phones but now I have second hand FP 3 and it is enough for me.
If you want it only for testing, breaking things… Buy some POS office PC, lot of companies is always getting rid of these.
I am not self hosting, but I will probably buy few of these from my work and try it (at least it’s my plan).
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