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I am old and dumb. My fren installed Linux Mint on my laptop and it works fine. I have over 100 updates waiting for action, but I don't know which ones I want or even need. I am a low-end user, I use my puter mainly for Poal and Youtube, not work stuff. Should I just enable automatic updates? I don't want a bunch of useless crap on my harddrive I will never need. Appreciate any input.

I am old and dumb. My fren installed Linux Mint on my laptop and it works fine. I have over 100 updates waiting for action, but I don't know which ones I want or even need. I am a low-end user, I use my puter mainly for Poal and Youtube, not work stuff. Should I just enable automatic updates? I don't want a bunch of useless crap on my harddrive I will never need. Appreciate any input.

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My fren installed Linux Mint on my laptop and it works fine.

Are you sure he installed Mint? Every time I've ever installed Mint there's been some major problem that I find out is a known bug. Then I try Xubuntu or Kubuntu and the bug's there too so I have to end up putting Bill Gates' crap on the PC.

The latest was on Mint 20.2. Got situated and discovered the computer can't sleep if you have an Nvidia card and use nouveau driver. Go to driver manager and pick Nvidia driver and the system is hosed and can't even boot anymore. Go to recovery mode and remove the Nvidia drivers and find out I can have sleep with nouveau driver if I configure grub with init_on_alloc=0. Start using system and about 5 minutes later I get a hard freeze, can't even CTRL+ALT+F1 a terminal. For fuck's sake, this is 10 year-old hardware. You'd think they'd have ironed out the bugs by now.

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Sounds like you have had some pretty shitty linux experiences.

I cant recall the last time my machine crashed. Ive put mint on lots of things and not had any issues. I use arch on my daily driver. My and my wifes laptops run mint.

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This was the third machine I'd tried Mint on in the last two years. Similar story every time. I suspect this is why Linux never gains much traction. For the right hardware combo its stability can't be beat, but that's an elusive combination. M$ focuses on "it just works" no matter what hardware, even if that means a little general crappiness for your trouble.

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Mint is Ubuntu based. I main LMDE.