The problem with Mint is that it includes things like Flash and various
codecs, when they really are not necessary even to run people's hardware. It
might be user friendly but it really gives people the wrong idea about what
GNU/Linux is actually for. Why can't you recommend Trisquel? It is equally
user-friendly. And with Trisquel 8 coming soon, Cinnamon desktop environment
will most likely be available; according to this page, it is in the
'Universe' repository of Ubuntu:
https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/cinnamon/
Trisquel's GNOME fallback desktop isreasonably usable as it is. Most people,
who use their computers for web-browsing, word-processing, emails and some
solitaire are well-catered for without the nasty parts of Mint and Ubuntu and
other distributions. The hardware that is often unsupported in Linux-libre is
graphics cards and wireless cards. However, in the last 5 years, things have
come a long way with Nouveau and more wireless drivers and firmware. Nouveau,
for example, is usable for almost all tasks, and Intel have a free driver.
It is not constructive to give people something like Mint, when something
substantially better exists, and would in all likelihood work for them. If
they really want a proprietary application, then there is Wine for Windows
programs, or they can download it online (like they have been doing on
Windows).
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