IDG Contributor Network: Linux Mint 18.1, the best Linux distro money can buy

I used to be a distro hopper, looking for new exciting distributions, never satisfied with the one I had. I also used to spend a majority of my free time fixing those distros. I don’t have the luxury of free time anymore. I don't have hours to spend making my operating system function. These days I use what works and I have settled on a few distributions: CentOS for my production server, Ubuntu for the home server, and my main system dual boots with Arch Linux and openSUSE Tumbleweed.
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