I am pretty new to Linux (a bit over a year) but to be fair, I haven’t really messed with it. Once set up, everything works, so I never really use the terminal. to me, it is just an OS, and i don’t mess under the hood with it.
I use Mint (Cinnamon) and I am pretty happy with it. My thoughts now are, with a new PC comming, if I should stick to Mint, or install an other distribution?
I use it mainly as a home desktop, but also do some image editing, video editing, learning CAD at the moment and of course a bit of gaming (through Steam)
Any advice is welcomed
No, if you like mint and cinnamon then why change?
The only reason to change would be if you want a different desktop environment. You could do that with mint or go with a distro that mains a different DE.
Mint is popular and reliable, so only change if you fancy trying something new and are willing to reinstall if its not to your liking.
I used to be on Mint and left it when I decided to move to KDE. It worked fine in mint but I had lots of app duplication in the menus. I also wanted more cutting edge versions.of software so wanted a different district for that. So I switched to OpenSuSE Tumbleweed (a rolling release distro).
If you do want to tinker and try out other distros then you could also play with distros in virtual machines (KVM or Virtualbox) or if you have a desktop get a second harddrive and install a different distro on it. Its easy to dualboot Linux distros (and safest to have separate hard drives so you don’t make mistakes when partitioning).
And if they picked the Cinnamon DE version, they can still install KDE or GNOME or whatever. There’s no reason to reinstall the whole OS just to get a different DE.
Tumbleweed rocks, and it’s what I use. However, I don’t recommend it for new users because there just isn’t as much support out there, whereas Mint has tons of users and thus tons of support.