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  • It depends on how important your data is to you. Me personally, I just run a jellyfin server with dubiously acquired tv shows and movies. Which is to say that if I lost everything in a catastrophic failure, I wouldn’t much care, so I decided to get a refurbished 14tb USB connected external HDD.

    If you run anything more important, you should listen to others who might have a more robust solution









  • Personally I’m a PopOS enjoyer over Mint but that’s really not a big deal.

    1. As for not using the command line, you can get away with it for the most part but you’re eventually going to have to use it for something. Your distro, whatever you pick, will have an app called “shop” or “discover” or something similar that will let you download other apps and updates (yes you will generally want to keep your system up-to-date). It’s also likely that you’ll be able to download and use Proton this way. Since Mint and Pop (and Ubuntu lol) are Ubuntu based, any app that works on Ubuntu (like Proton) will also with with them.

    2. Custom theming (including mouse) well be pretty easy. Go into your settings app, find themes, and pick from any of the pre-installed onboard themes. Or go into your shop app, or even the internet, and download someone else’s theme.

    3. Keyboard shortcuts are also configurable and most of the time will be the same as windows

    4. If you pick a distro with a gui installer (all of your distro candidates do) then installation is basically completely unfuckupable.