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(waa whoa whoa whoaaaoaoooo)

I would try it, but focus on those included applications. If you don’t like anything else about Ubuntu, those production programs will work just fine on any other distribution.

And the chef’s name is Mimal, for Minnesota Iowa Missouri Arkansas Louisiana.

🤨 What does God need with a transporter beam? 🤨

By not detected I assume you mean it didn’t auto-mount and show up in Nemo file browser. Maybe try running the Disks app in Linux Mint and see if your SD card shows up there and just needs to be reformatted?

Does your laptop have an SD card slot? Maybe you could do a backup that way?

Once you get your backup sorted I would just do a fresh install of 22.1 Xia. You’ll be fine with that older hardware. I don’t think the new stuff from 20.3 to 22.1 would make you notice a severe difference. If you have 4 GB of RAM that’s your limiter, but I’d have said the same thing when 20.3 came out.

Agreed, nothing to worry about yet OP.

Yeah ‘etc’ of course stands for ‘et cetera’ which implies that’s all just a bunch of extra shit, right?

With every update Windows becomes more annoying.

With every update Linux Mint (and every distro) becomes more refined.

There are still gaps; HDR isn’t really there yet, never mind Dolby Vision… but if all you want is a PC that acts right and doesn’t piss you off with ads and upsells… honestly, a default Linux Mint install is at least as good as Windows at this point.

Second for Rescuezilla, it’s a Clonezilla front end with sane defaults you’d probably pick anyways.