After lots of distro-hopping, using arch for many years, I switched to Fedora and never looked back. I just want things to work, and fixing little issues gets boring really quickly, so I stopped using arch.

mint is a really stable base, doesn’t make me fiddle with the shell if i don’t want to, just works out of the box, and has an installer that isn’t ass.

fedora is pretty stable too but they also make things harder for users rather than easier.

I like Mint. I’ve been a Linux user for a long time, and Mint has so many little refinements and doesn’t get in my way - of course a lot of that is Cinnamon, but hey, they 're the originators of that too. Plus I’m used to apt at this point. I also find it easy to customize the way I like (nothing too crazy, just a bit): https://imgur.com/a/wPxLPkb

I prefer Mint just because it’s what I’m used to. Otherwise both are pretty solid distros.

fedora works like a clock and adopts new tech first in the industry

mint feels like using windows 7 in 2023 - unreliable and dated

Mint is very opinionated and made explicitly for less technical users. If you have basic command line skills (or you’re willing to learn) Fedora gives you more choice and in my experience it’s actually more reliable than Debian based distros.

I’m personally still loving Regolith Desktop on top of Ubuntu/Debian.

I tried Fedora this year and really don’t like it. I’m sticking to arch/arch-based : the learning curve is steep but onse you get used to it it’s really efficient.

Can’t compare to Mint, but I’m happy with Fedora. I like it because:

• It’s very up to date but not bleeding edge.
• Flatpak support is great.
• Ships with vanilla Gnome.

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I currently use Fedora Silverblue, mainly because of the easy rollback, and because it makes package management easier. I like having a default base to add and remove from (and being able to easily rebase onto a different spin). That said, regular Fedora and Mint are both solid distros.

I prefer Mint just for ease-of-use, really. I’m not a new user, by any means, and over the years I’ve bounced between Red Hat, openSUSE, Ubuntu, and a small handful of others that escape me at the moment. But I’m also not a power user.

With Mint, I don’t have to tweak things, really. I can install and just go about doing what I want to do. As a bonus, guests aren’t left scratching their heads as much if they sit down at my computer to browse the web or pull up a video. It’s Windows-ish enough where they can muddle their way through with minimal issue.

Fedora is a great and user-friendly distro but I wouldn’t really recommend it to a new user. Historically, Fedora was always kind of test site for Red Hat and it still can be considered the upstream for RHEL with all the downsides that come with upstream software. I am a Void user myself because I like its minimalist approach but it is not for people who are new to Linux. Whenever people I know tell me they want to try Linux, I usually recommend Mint (Which is a long-standing goto newbie distro, imo. It is polished enough and has a great community.), Pop!_OS (Great out-of-the-box hardware support.) and Endeavour (Polished and user-friendly arch-based experience.) to new linux users.

Mint cuz of the ecosystem and compatability, my only major issue with it was the outdated drivers, but I installed the kisak Mesa PPA and was off to the races :D. Mint also has really good flatpak integration so you basically get everything a normal soy user like me needs 😜

I’ve been using Pop_OS for the last several years (both work and home machines). I just want something that I can install my IDEs and Steam on with a few clicks. I spend enough time building containers and managing services at work, don’t want to put in more effort at home. If I was more of a hobbyist, I’d probably dive into something arch based.