Mint is the Ubuntu LTS desktop with Cinnamon, for the person who wants updates that do not reshuffle the compositor every spring. Two posts carry this tag. The current one compares Mint 22.3 Zena with Fedora 44: support through 2029 on the Mint side, a six-month fuse on the Fedora side, Snap versus DNF, and the homelab overlap. I do not declare a universal winner. The older post is the 21.3 Cinnamon install, including Wayland notes from that release and the VMware, Resolve, OBS, and Steam commands from the video.

Install 22.3 if you are starting now. Keep the 21.3 page for the application order and for the Debian-family Resolve path that the Omarchy article points back to. Package names move. The reason each step exists is the part that still helps: Driver Manager before you fight NVIDIA by hand, a .run or makeresolvedeb flow that is not the Arch AUR, and Proton as its own step after Steam.

Mint is a daily driver, not an appliance. I would not put Pi-hole on it when Alpine or CoreOS will do that job with less desktop in the way. I would put Mint on a machine a family member has to use, or on a disk where I want the base to stay recognizable in 2028. The Fedora XFCE post is the other light desktop. Read both if the hardware is old and the question is which familiar UI to keep.

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