I installed Mint in a cheap mini PC to self host, and have had problems with external USB storage drives.
They kept dismounting, until I realised you have to give them a permanent mount location (why?!).
And they kept losing power because Linux had a default setting that USB devices ‘auto suspend’ after some time. This took ages to diagnose, and command line stuff to fix 😔
Other than that it seems to be a solid distro.
Also - I think these distros should make it simpler to partition the SSD on install. I used to easily do that when building Windows PCs but it was not clear I was making the right choices with Mint, so I went with the default.
I installed Mint in a cheap mini PC to self host, and have had problems with external USB storage drives.
They kept dismounting, until I realised you have to give them a permanent mount location (why?!).
And they kept losing power because Linux had a default setting that USB devices ‘auto suspend’ after some time. This took ages to diagnose, and command line stuff to fix 😔
Other than that it seems to be a solid distro.
Also - I think these distros should make it simpler to partition the SSD on install. I used to easily do that when building Windows PCs but it was not clear I was making the right choices with Mint, so I went with the default.