I installed Mint as a virtual machine yesterday. Instead of creating a pair of additional distributions, I don’t understand why Mint isn’t a group of products that can be installed over the standard Ubuntu releases.
If you have extra disk space & time, you should take a look at deepin.
Fantastic! Now we are on an even keel Sir. Huge respect and kudos for giving it a shot! All criticisms now excepted and respected!
“I don’t understand why Mint isn’t a group of products that can be installed over the standard Ubuntu releases.”
Honestly I don’t know. It is Ubuntu, only thing I can think of is that they eliminated extinct unneeded and redundant stuff and retained only what is actually needed and recompiled it as it’s own complete lighter package. Because it will do anything Ubuntu and Debian and elements can be added back as needed.
Thank you for the reference to the Deepin, Looks like it is geared towards touch screens but definitely sounds like it deserves some more exploration!
Hopefully you got the Cinnamon so that we are on the same page about the average user’s experience and ease of use?