Yes. Faster too.

I’d recomed giving Fedora a shot. Fedora + Niri / Noctalia is my daily driver now. But Fedora KDE is great on its own.

Not everything you hear is true. LLMs are responsible for finding and helping fix thousands of bugs.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-CVEs-Nearly-2000

There is a big difference between a professional coders being assisted by a LLM and “AI slop”. I hate AI slop, but not all LLM assisted code is slop.

Mint back in the day had a valid reason for being. It made installing proprietary codecs and drivers easy. It was based on Ubuntu but handled the stuff that Ubuntu just refused to.

Now days Ubuntu handles proprietary codecs and drivers very well. There is no “point” to using Mint now. You get a downstream smaller community and lose the support that that larger upstream distro has.

Mint isn’t bad per say, but in 2026 I don’t see why you would choose it instead of the thing it’s based on.

I mostly get concerned when I see new to Linux users choose smaller less well supported distros instead if mainstream ones. Less so with mint but very much so with Zorin.

I mean Linux itself heavily uses LLMs to assist in programming.

Also both Zorin OS and Mint are based on top of Ubuntu. So it would be the same except the distros are less used and have worse support.

Lastly I know some people on Lemmy really loud and assume that any LLM assisted coding = bugs and bad. But in reality neither Linux itself nor Ubuntu, nor Fedora are “vibe coded”. It’s mostly LLM assisted bug finding. They’re literally finding thousands of old (pre LLM) bugs per Linux kernel release.

I’d recommend trying fedora KDE or Ubuntu. Both are mainstream distros that are well supported and have up to date hardware support.

Nope. It’s written from scratch in rust. Not a fork at all.

Strong recommend for Seafile. It’s way faster than nextcloud, it has a good web ui, and nice clients on all platforms.

I can not express how much faster than nextcloud it is.

Obviously open source too.