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Are you not worried that Mint 19 still uses 5.3 kernel which was EOLed some time ago? No sign of 5.4.? kernel! 5.4.14 latest stable.

https://www.petri.com/managing-files-wi ... 7-on-linux

But why would you want to? And he obviously doesn't know about 'ls -l'

OK. This may not be a reasonable test (for some value of reasonable). Tried it on VBox - 1 processor, 4Gb RAM; 2GB more than my Void-MATE install. As Void regularly updates kernel and zfs is built as a dkms module I waited until a kernel update was signalled by my Void-MATE install. time xbps-instal...

" The OS didn't autoenable anything. "

That's one thing I really like about it - c.f. Slackware

Have you tried the Void-MATE version? I find it quick and easy.

I use it a lot, together with tvheadend, to both watch and record terrestrial TV, and watch all the torrents I've downloaded - on a RaspberryPi with the OSMC distribution. 2 USB tuners + 5TB HDD for storage

If you're thinking Void, I recommend Void with MATE desktop.
I run it in a VM with 2G memory and a 2G swap - swap is unused after several days uptime.

Are you sure you're not trying a pae kernel on a non-pae machine?
More here. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE

Crosscourt,
Why do you particularly like Mint/MATE?

Have either of you tried Void Linux with the MATE desktop?
It's a "different" distro in that it's not based on anything else (seemingly); runit not systemd.
I find it quite fast to load, and quite complete.
Also exists for Raspberry Pi - but no MATE (yet) - installs to a command line.