Maintenance and security support has ended for Ubuntu 20.04. Are you or is your employer paying for Extended Support?
If not, your setup is about to enable a whole lot of other people to do their job too 😉
No need to get on the latest, hopping over to a just over 3 years old version of Ubuntu is enough to get security patches again.
Yep, as for the last point: the problem was not so much the devs but data going through a Chinese server
If Mint works for you, just stick with it. No need to try a different distribution to compare. You’ll know when you need it.
I would only go to Fedora if you need it. For example newer drivers (kernel, mesa). Don’t go change the kernel and/or mesa on a distribution, probably better to switch at that point. Or if you need KDE or GNOME for some reason. Wayland is disabled in Mint by default, but can be enabled. It’s been over a year IIRC since they added experimental Wayland support so it may be fine by now.
Differences between Linux distributions are exaggerated.
Mint is a great choice, it is very stable, and it really holds your hand via the Software Center.
However, stable also means old: it does not support the latest hardware.
If you have hardware that released after (rough estimate) April 2024, consider something based on Fedora, such as Bazzite, instead. It comes with modern drivers and should support modern hardware much better.
keep it on cache since I do a lot of code compilation, but I will usually switch it to frequency for gaming and stuff.
Isn’t gaming the most cache-heavy CPU workload there is? The X3D CPUs have consistently topped gaming benchmarks, even outperforming much more modern CPUs that lack 3D cache.
I’d sooner do it the other way around: frequency for compiling, rendering, transcoding, etc. Cache for gaming!
Finally, the end of “it doesn’t work on Wayland” is in sight. Just in time for Windows 10 EoL too
SmartMux looks cool! Any clue already what that means for ASUS dual-AMD users who currently use supergfxctl?
Will supergfxctl not be necessary anymore? Or is the MUX switch a separate thing from powering down the dGPU to save energy?