You’ll be fine with Mint. Even the Ubuntu based one. Just keep a separated partition for /home, then jumping ship to LMDE becomes trivial.

Most likely the system won’t boot from failure. You’ll have to boot from the usb install media and execute timeshift restore from there. Just be careful to restore the correct partition.

Nothing in particular it seems

I dunno but Budgie could very well be an alternate DE for Linux Mint for those longing for Qtness.

Welcome to the party, buddy. Lovely post also.

I have migrated a family member PC to Mint because their Windows install was botched and it will need a new license, as an emergency to let they have some office work done in meanwhile. They feel accommodated pretty instantly and, while going back to Windows will be always in the back of the mind, the familiarity with Mint’s work flow enables them to not feel pressured to do it.

That’s my take as well, PostgreSQL is amazing, but in simpler DB schemes SQLite is undefeatable.

Prisoner says his walled garden is perfect.

So should they use the AUR, btw?

The OP’s elderly parents won’t need anything else. Have you forgotten that one of his specs is to minimize password usage and updating?

Any atomic distro + flatpak packages.

It seems a better choice for long term storage than magnetic media.

Stagnation around 5% tops.

Also great for embedding binary blobs that could tamper with isos

I’m not but you never know what tomorrow holds

Are there kernel modules for these thingies? It seems I have to buy a separate 4K player…

Thanks. What about NVidia vs AMD? Should I go with AMD if cheaper?

Ventoy is even worse. What’s wrong with Rufus if you’re on Windows and the native distro tool on Linux/BSD?

That’s plymouth, not grub

Nowadays it should’ve been a <memey youtuber> Linux.

This could lead to an early demise of Linux Mint. It’s great we have LMDE ready