Yeah. I knew somone would say that. I feel Mint is its own thing though and main stream enough. I meant more the distros that have a webite, and then other flavours or spins on that distro.

I do want to try Debian at some stage but it just feels about old out of the box.

Ubuntu has ads in the OS, mint dosnt.

Installed mint on my parents laptops so they didn’t become e-waste when Win11 came out. They have no issues.

Being new(ish) to Linux since that time and I found that the main distortion are better than their sub “flavours”. For me anyway. I didn’t like Mint LMDE or Kubuntu etc.

Knowing nothing of Tesla would she have been able to gain control back AFTER the lock was put on?

For example you can reboot an Android to safe mode and wipe back to factory.

I’m not sure if that’s possible on tech heavily cloud controlled through apps and online accounts.