I'm an Ubuntu user at work and a Windows (desktop)/Arch (server) user at home. Wikipedia says that Mint is based on Ubuntu, but it doesn't really explain why I would use it over Ubuntu itself. What does Mint add?

> What does Mint add?

For you, nothing. The UI is just more Windows-esque.

It's often recommended to Windows users to make their transition to Linux desktops easier.

I have installed mint recently, dual boot with windows.

I mostly like it, but it does have one major downside.. the 4k font scaling is terrible compared to windows. When I adjust font scaling on windows it only modifies font size. When I do it in mint, it messes up a bunch of other things, and games start running at the wrong screen size etc.

So I still ended up mostly using Windows almost entirely because of this issue.. (These search ads/news can be disabled that this post is talking about, so not a problem for me).

Yeah, I really like Mint, and I wish everything worked, but there was just enough not working (for my particular configuration and use cases) that I went back to Windows 10.

https://www.retorch.com/blog/linux-mint.htm