[zcar]

Mint is great, served me well for many years. Never had an issue. With Debian I would mess things up if I messed with something I should not be touching. There are faster options but it requires more maintenance. Mint gets out of your way and just works.

[kennysoona]

You would probably have issues in mint if you messed with things you should not be touching also. Seems wrong to hold that against Debian.

[zcar]

That's the thing about mint. You don't have to mess with it because it works. Updating, installing, deleting, changing settings, no problems. That's is my experience with mint. Cannot say the same about any other distro.

[kennysoona]

You don't have to mess with Debian either. By your own admission you were messing with things you shouldn't have been.

[zcar]

I did if I wanted to fix issues with WiFi, audio, installations, etc. That never happened to me when using mint. Another example: I shouldn't be messing with fixing packages after an arch update, but I sometimes have too. It has always been something simple, even less issues than debian, plus other advantages. Again, that is my experience.

[kennysoona]

> I did if I wanted to fix issues with WiFi, audio, installations, etc. That never happened to me when using mint.

That might have been due to a bug in some issue that you would have to fix under Mint as well.

> It has always been something simple, even less issues than debian, plus other advantages. Again, that is my experience.

Sure, that's fine, I still don't think it makes sense to put down a distro because you were messing with things you shouldn't have been. If you said you had to, then that's different from messing with something you shouldn't have been, since you should have been to fix it.

It seems the real issue was not that you were messing with something you shouldn't have been, bur rather stuff was not working for you as well out of the box.