i actually did try that along with quite a number of other distros- even got into manjaro- (A masochists dream come true)- Tried Debian as well- just too much technical knowhow for many of them for my taste at this stage of the game- I don’t mind havign to have a little knowhow needed- but soem distros are just geekier than others- in a techie manner i mean- and not what i want- I couldn’t get PCLinuxOX to work right, and it just seemed kinda slow- (and i have a massive system- ) I eventually settled on mint as it provided best of both worlds— a little knowhow needed- but not so much that i would be a slave to it trying to find fixes online all the time
I like Linux, but the support- to be honest- is very hard to figure out- they talk way above my pay level in the forums when discussing problems and solutions- They know what they are talking about of course- but folks like me are lost- I’ve really messed up things badly trying to follow ‘instructions’ for some issues- fortunately linux reinstalls rather quickly- and I’ve now gotten into doing bakcups with macrium reflect which will save tons of time if everything needs a reinstall-