Is Linux Mint any good in 2019?

Yes. That’s the short answer. The slightly longer answer is that Linux Mint is perhaps the best OS (Operating System) to try if you are thinking about moving away from Windows.

If you play any but the most resource-friendly games (browser-based games like the farming one), then you may wish to go for SteamOS, but you probably already knew that, and are only reading this in a search-snippet.

The reason I recommend Linux Mint aside from the obvious ‘installing it is pretty much like Windows with a lot “oh, it’s not asking me for a DNA sample and the spare key to that safety deposit box I forgot about that it somehow knew about before I connected it to the Internet”.1

Windows is so ubiquitous that we forget that $100 is a great barrier to entry to so many. Now, we hear the inevitable probably-likely-true rumours that Windows 7 will be deprecated in 2020. Well, now that we al think about it Microsoft not securing Windows 7 could lead to an even worse repeat of the greater-than-zero chance that there was widespread election fraud

1. There is, of course, a way to install even Windows 10 without all of the onerous things like the to-be-honest-maybe-smart-for-most Microsoft account. Think about how many people MS has in their database, and how much money it must make for them. BoA money, must be. I won’t list all of that here, but it helps to have install media. You can actually download perhaps every version from Microsoft’s download center, to burn .iso’s regardless of license or account. They planned for that a while back when they piggy-backed off of the spectre microcode fixes to brick a few million devices so we’d have to buy more, etc etc. That’s what the rumors say, but of course they would when the whole thing was just probably not the best that could have been done but ‘what was done’ and each step was correct in the context of the moment. Why were we picking on MS again? Oh, because AMD and Intel told them to slow down etc. but MS saw people falling into the abyss of complete world-wide identity systems failure. Thankfully (?) only a few hospital systems were cryptolockered, and presumably (tbc)