it’s a mini pc, standing sideways, with a USB to ethernet adapter and USB HDD

It’s an awesome way to discover

discover

I see what you did there

Yeah but it’s harder when something else is incompatible, like WiFi on a laptop, or Ethernet on a desktop. Not so easy to update the kernel without internet. I wonder if it would be possible for the installer to include multiple versions of the kernel to choose from.

I haven’t tried Bazaar

This is why I think Kubuntu is a better suggestion than Ubuntu, and also Discover is better than the Ubuntu Software Center anyways and it makes it easy to avoid Snaps and does a good job managing Flatpaks.

I think it might give you problems if you try to install it on brand new hardware though, because Mint uses an older kernel by default