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Ubuntu is great. Lots of guides for things, great community support, and things usually just work. Plenty easy enough to do what you want to do without having to learn a bunch of stuff all the time.

I think this is why it is not the preferred choice for experts who want to configure everything themselves, or have strong opinions about the internals of how it works.

But I basically want to never have to think about the os if I don't have to.

Out of curiosity, is the live USB / install experience that different than kubuntu? I've never tried mint.