[ta9000]

The latest version (with support through 2029) was released last month. It installed and runs flawlessly.

https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_zena_whatsnew.php

[dismalaf]

It's literally based on a 2 year old Ubuntu LTS... This is what I mean. It's very outdated.

[ta9000]

So what’s your alternative?

[tapoxi]

Bazzite or Cachy

Mint won't even boot for me because it doesn't support my year old GPU (9070 XT). That's a huge miss when someone is looking at an OS primarily for gaming.

[ta9000]

I’ll look into Cachy. Bazzite I’m not going to touch because it seems politically toxic.

[dismalaf]

Fedora Workstation, Fedora Silverblue, regular (non-LTS) Ubuntu are in my experience best for newbs. After that Debian. After that Arch.

For gaming specifically, I've heard good things about Nobara (dev is a RedHatter, though it's his personal project) and CachyOS.

[queenkjuul]

just use ubuntu