Finally ready to move from Windoze to Unix, suggestions of flavor of Unix to use

[Adonay Felipe Nogueira]

> One of Mint's "improvements" over Ubuntu is additional drivers, partitularly
> closed source ones. Ubuntu (and Debian), like Red Hat Enterprise linux is
> fairly "strict" with reguard to being a totally open source distribution. Mint
> is "looser" in that reguard.

I see something off here, since Trisquel 7, 6 and Parabola are
free/libre distros --- not simply "open source" --- but some versions of
the Ethernet chipset/card/controller mentioned does seem to work.