In which case, Mint will look and feel more familiar in terms of user interface. I fled Windows too, when they pushed the gwx.exe malware during their push to get Windows 10 "upgraded" everywhere. I have used Ubuntu at times, but for the most part I stick with Mint, the Linux Distro I initially fled to, which I've been happy with since about 2015.
I've tended to use Mint MATE rather than Cinnamon, as MATE has a GUI with older less fancy looks, but which consumes a bit less computing power, so you've got more computing power tospare for the programs you're actualy using.
Atleast with the versions I've used, Mint and Ubuntu are VERY similar behind the scenes (though perhaps less so now Ubuntu is making .deb installation more bothersome, and has been simplifying their main user interfaces to take away choices, though you can still make these choices by command line methods if needed), any software which works on Ubuntu will work fine on Mint, Mint software will usually work fine with Ubuntu, perhaps with a little more tinkering needed the first time you run it.
I'm typing on circa-2014 hardware right now, with a fairly weak i3 processor, and can run typical programs, including CAD and ray-tracing rendering just fine on the latest Linux Mint MATE, I doubt I'd have such a responsive experience trying to run the latest Windows OS on this hardware, the latest Ubuntu on this hardware would perform pretty similarly to Mint.
Edited by rp88, 04 May 2024 - 11:46 AM.
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