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Ok I tried Mint a few years ago and it was shit, if you talk like this I'm going to try it again
And when it fails, like it always does, 1) I am blocking you, and 2) I am coming back to shout 'Fuck Linux' twice as hard.
I mean if you go into it wanting it to fail, it'll fail. There's a learning curve, as there always is with a new user experience. It isn't a carbon copy of windows, but for the average user, it's a perfectly fine drop-in replacement.
Look son, I've been an IT professional for 3+ decades and I have stood up and admin'ed literally hundreds of linux servers and even I struggled every time I tried to transition my daily driver.
For servers? Nothing better than your favorite linux flavor provided you don't have any unusual peripherals. I much prefer supporting linux over windows servers any day.
For desktops? Not a chance unless its part of a corporate supported package where I get direct dev access 24/7 b/c when it breaks, it breaks in fucktastically stupid ways especially in large user environments
Do you know the blistering scaburous hell of inheriting a userbase of 300+ workstations running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in the 2020's? BECAUSE I DO!
I spent eight months trying to build an update path to modern Ubuntu or Mint that didn't absolutely nukefuck all of their piles of in-house legacy code THAT LITERALLY HAS NO LIVING ORIGINAL DEVS and I fail it so bad I didn't even charge them for my last 2 months of work
So, please understand I say this as someone with full eyes open and significant industry knowledge: Fuck linux (desktop)
Your anecdote has the same weight as mine, which is - I've run one distro or another on-and-off since the '90s. Daily-drivers since about 2009 I think; I can remember having to reinstall Arch once, my fault because I fucked it up with a partial upgrade and didn't realise what I was doing.
One or two of the jobs I had had infrastructure for Linux, but mostly I'm talking about my own personal computers rather than supporting "a userbase of 300+ workstations" (where you'd probably use AD anyway).