Yes. Unless you have any problems, stick with it. It’s easy to use, it’s stable, it’s pretty well supported, it’s common enough that there’s a lot of advice available. You already know it and don’t appear to have any issues or complaints with it.

There’s no harm in trying some other distros on a live USB if you’re feeling curious, but there’s no reason to change for the sake of it. In case you weren’t aware, a live USB runs completely off the USB stick - so you can test it on an existing machine, and it won’t alter any installed files.

There’s a chance that with a very new machine with very new components that Mint may have a compatibility problem (by default it uses slightly older, more tested kernels or software versions) - you can normally fix this by manually installing newer versions, or using the “Linux Mint Edge” version (which uses newer kernels by default) - or by trying a different distro which uses newer kernels/packages by default.

Sometimes people get this funny thing in their head that Mint/Ubuntu/PopOS etc are “beginner distros” and after you’ve used them for a few years, you need to “upgrade” to a more complicated one - but no, for the majority of purposes, you can carry on using the one you like, until they stop making it, or you stop liking it.

I guess you wanted to Enjoy the Silence? :)

It was a great mystery at the time what was actually being sung there.

Along with yours, we also had:

I’m blue, I believe I’m a dog,
I believe I’m a dog,
I believe I’m a dog.

And

I’m blue, I believe I will die
I believe I will die
I believe I will die.

I’ll buy them all in a few weeks when they’re 20p each in the “discount frozen food” shop :)

Though I have no direct personal experience myself, from others I know, I was given the impression it takes a lot of complicated legal paperwork, medical proof, over half a year and about £1000. That’s in England though - I’m not sure if the process is streamlined in Scotland in any way.

For reasons I can’t remember, tins of beans is also a Lemmy unit :)

For international readers, that’s:
1 handed = ~1.3kg
2 handed = ~2.7kg
Zweihander = ~4.5kg

Other measurements:
Thinkpad P14 laptop (approx 1.6kg / 3.5lbs)
1 handed = 0.8 Thinkpads
2 handed = 1.7 Thinkpads
Zweihander = 2.8 Thinkpads

Average cat (~4kg / 8.8lbs)
1 handed = 0.3 cats
2 handed = 0.7 cats
Zweihander = 1.1 cats

Tin of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce (420g / 0.42kg /0.93lbs)
1 handed = 3.1 tins of beans
2 handed = 6.4 tins of beans
Zweihander = 10.7 tins of beans

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Oddly it looks like the article is only referring to people coming back from holiday, bringing a bit of meat or cheese with them. It doesn’t seem to cover the cargo ships full of the stuff.

Obviously this makes sense, as whenever I go on holiday and bring back some delicious foreign cheese or meat, the first thing I always do is go down to my local farm and share it out with all the animals :)

…and that you’d have to live in Portsmouth :)

“We were totally fine with seventeen months of continual atrocities, but I think eighteen months is taking things a bit far”

I would love to talk to her about that :)

I’ve looked back at the Earth, it’s quite a view.
A new height for me to look down on you,
I’m the Queen of space and you are a peasant.
Stuck to the ground, it’s so unpleasant.

I’ve been to space and I’m better than you,
I’ve been to space and I’m better than you,
I’ve been to space and I’m better than you,
I’ve been to space and I’m better than you.

“to actually talk about the issues people don’t want to talk about”

Who are you going to talk about these issues with, then? A selection of other salad ingredients?

I’d not seen that outtake! Thank you, it was hilarious :)

The Prince Williametre, which measures 191 centimetres, is one of those weird measurements that’s not quite one thing or the other.

Fun Fact:
In British English, “Trump” means the same as “fart” (and has done for over 100 years):

“(intransitive) British slang to expel intestinal gas through the anus” Collins English Dictionary

“to release gas from the bowels through the bottom”
Cambridge English Dictionary

“slang or colloquial. The act of breaking wind audibly”
Oxford English Dictionary

And what’s the collective noun for multiple Jeremy Hunts?

You can play it in Crusader Kings II, with the DLC “Sunset Invasion”.

If you’re in it for the long-haul, you can then eventually export/convert your save into Europa Universalis, then Victoria, then Hearts of Iron, then possibly Stellaris?

I don’t care much for ties generally, but I like that one. I think it would catch my attention if I were waitering :)