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Your PC can run any distro smoothly. What are you looking for that Mint doesn’t provide?
Personally, I'm looking for reproducible environments where if you create a lock file of your packages, you will get the exact same system on another machine if you copy it over
Maybe you would like an immutable distro such as Fedora Silverblue?
I'm already using NixOS, which is even more powerful since it can configure my software as well as my system
NixOS can do that.
That's why I'm on it :^)