Got the Kidpix design philosophy

I somehow could not find the Mint install so I went with Ubuntu Mate. It was fine.

I'm pretty sure antiX is designed for this specific use, but I have not run it personally. It's based in Debian stable (which right now is Bookworm and will be Trixie pretty soon). I'm very fond of Debian. It's not fancy, but it gets the job done.

Ubuntu Mate was my first distro and it helped me learn a lot, but I don't really see a point in using Ubuntu over Debian. I never found it easier and you learn apt either way.

For me personally I install kitty terminal and integrate it with fish asap. Then I waste a bunch of time customizing it to my liking. My preferred text editor is Kate regardless of what DE I'm using and I usually get bleachbit for basic cleanup.

Yeah, this was a weird way for them to phrase this. You can use Meta stuff on Linux and Fediverse stuff on Windows.