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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Minus all the caveats like not being reliable on anything with an NVidia GPU or just hating your specific setup for no reason (I am salty, I'm going to keep trying anyway)

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've recently convinced my daughter to try Mint on her system. She has GF 1650 and it worked out of the box with propietary Nvidia driver (nothing needed to install additionally, with the option to switch to open source driver). Really, it's not worse than on Windows.