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[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How does this compare for a user who "just wants things to work without terminal/CLI".

I've landed on Mint after trying a few other distros.

[–] carl_marks_1312@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Pretty good tbh. I was torn between Zorin, PopOS and Mint and settled Zorin because it also syncs nice with Graphene/Android via the App. You can choose between Mac, Windows and other type of Desktop looks and don't need an Terminal if you don't want to

[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 4 points 2 months ago

The sync looks to be a version of KDE connect. That I have running on Mint. I think I had to install it from the Mint software GUI though.

Zorin does look cool though. As easy as it is Mint/Cinnamon is a bit ugly out of the box.