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i don't think you'll have any stability issues at all, and mint makes more sense if you want to stick with your apt muscle memory, but i totally feel you on wanting to see new and different things haha. by the way, have you ever run into driver or package freshness issues on it? i usually go for rolling release distros myself, not really used to lts stuff

well i'm not the type to run super up-to-date or cutting edge stuff so i'm not the most reliable source.. i've never had problems with drivers personally and i tend to install on patchwork frankensteined devices full of salvage parts and random peripherals. but i confess that sometimes i go months or even years without running update manager, especially when i install on drives that i take in and out of my tower :'^I

oh ok, fair enough. i'm a bit obsessed with keeping things up to date. still, looks like i'll test both distros and take it from there. thanks for your thoughts

you can always load mint on a flashdrive or something and test that way :)