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		easyx 33 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's goi... What's the better choice among mint and Ubuntu for a software engineering students? Any advice?

mixmastamyk 33 days ago [–]

Mint is much better unless you need the very newest versions of packages. In which case I'd recommend to augment with flatpak or use Debian testing over Ubuntu. Basically Ubuntu is over for me since snap and they went back to Gnome3.

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