Yes, agreed with you. I installed Arch a few times in the past but it is more time intensive and I just can be bother. EndeavourOS is very much as close to vanilla arch as possible. I like it ;-)

Took me 20 minutes to install it on the laptop and 45 minutes on the desktop as I had to reinstall lots of apps. and transfer back all saved files and flatpak apps.
Wife still use mint on her laptop and the old iMac(2015) also still with mint but rarely used.

From Fedora 42 to Debian Trixie last week.

My NUC died last week. I bought a Asus pn64 and installed fedora 42. Works great. I also installed Fedora on my old laptop to replace Linux Mint. Fedora Gnome works better with the touchpad, I found.

update: for the last month I have been using Debian Testing Gnome on both my NUC and laptop. My partner is still using Linux Mint. I changed as I found that Gnome works better with the laptop's touchpad. I also checked Fedora 42 but I found Debian faster and more responsive.

Mainstream people were not ready for dos/windows when it first came to the market. It just need a little change of mindset.

I also have a iMac 2015. I have Linux mint 22.1 on it and it run perfectly. Only thing, it is slow at boot time, but once booted no problems. Originally I had Linux mint installed on an external SSD and it was faster at boot time.

My daily driver is Linux. It has been so for the last 25 years. Years ago it was more of a challenge installing Linux on hardware, now it is so much easier. Presently I have an Intel NUC pc, 2 ASUS laptops and an iMac 2014. All run perfectly with Linux.

Yes. but boring. Anyhow I may reinstall Fedora on one of the laptop when the new upgrade will be available. I found that Fedora was best to use with the touchpad.

Nixos is a great distro. But I am too old now. I am 75. I just want a distro that works without having to spend time set it up. The main reason is that my partner is much young that me and not in IT. If something happens to me it would be easier for my partner to use the PCs with mint.

I switched to linux in 1999. Used Red Hat, Suse, Debian. The last few years I was on Arch. 6 weeks ago I installed mint. I used linux while working too. I must say that Linux came along way in the last 25 years.

Linux, I have used it for over 25 years now, both for work an home uses.

If you are installing linux mint, it works out of the box ;-)
After installing it, watch some youtubes "of what to do after installing linux mint 22"
BTW 75 years old here, addicted distro hopper from opensuse, debian, fedora, arch & mint.
good luck & enjoy :-)

I have Linux Mint 22 on an imac 2014. works without any issue, apart of slow boot time. Probably due to the old HDD.

I do not use ubuntu, nor bluetooth so I can't help you there. However wifi should work. Maybe try another distro from an usb stick to see if you can get the wifi working!
Good luck ;-)

We have 2 old ASUS Vivobooks. I installed Arch, Fedora, Debian and presently we have Linux mint 22 on both.
I vaguely remembered that with fedora or debian I had to disconnect the Security in the bios.

Hi Matt, enjoy the Festive Season and all the best for 2025.

I installed linux mint 22 on a 2014 iMac. Also my main desktop and our 2 laptops are running on linux. I have been using linux since 2000 as the only OS. While I was working in IT I also only had linux on my computers.😀