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Mint and Ubuntu seek to be full desktop replacements, the equivalent of OSX or Windows 10.
Try Xubuntu instead.
The difference between the vast majority of Linuxs:
- RPM vs DEB for packages
- Window managers
Xubuntu is 95% Ubuntu, except they ditched the animation and graphics heavy front-end for a lightweight one instead called XFCE.
You don't have to concern yourself with much of this if you don't know what X is, etc... that's cool, but there are more lightweight UIs that will be more comfortable in a VM.
- RPM vs DEB for packages
Velocio
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I'm just using it for curiosity's sake and to be more apt at using the command line on the raspberry pi without having to constantly be googling stuff.
Would like to get comfortable fiddling with network stuff and SSH etc.
I'm still confused about what X is if you say I should kill it and use a stripped down window manager... I thought it just meant booting in to the console as per this:
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/01/boot-into-text-console-ubuntu-linux-14-04/