1) You can install that shitty gnome if you wish. That's the advantage of any gnu Linux distro 2) what so mean by not up to date? apt update & apt dist-upgrade makes you always up-to-date. Do you want rolling release distro?
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I want a distro that comes with GNOME. Which part don’t you understand?
Mint is almost always outdated compared to upstream. What I want is not necessarily a rolling release, but something close to upstream versions of packages, something like Fedora or Arch.
Fuck Mint. It doesn’t even have a proper Wayland session yet.