Wow lucky me! I got Kaiser of the Galactic Empire. (Legend of the Galactic Heroes; it was an Empire episode).

Yeah, that’s a fair take. I’ve only been frustrated once by the release schedule, and that’s because I was stuck on a very buggy version of podman, which I rely fairly heavily on for development. That said, I think the only games I’ve played on my Mint machine are Factorio (which ran fine) and Wizard101 (which ran like shit). Nobara has definitely been a better experience for gaming, but it hasn’t been quite as user-friendly.

Also, I thought most of the hate that Ubuntu gets is because of sketchy behaviour on Canonical’s part…

During in my data science master’s program, someone unironically sent me a localhost link to a Jupyter Notebook.

I don’t get why everyone and their mother has to shit on Mint. I started my Linux journey on servers, but my first home computing distro was Ubuntu 16. It wasn’t what I needed so I stuck with Windows 10. After migrating my homelab server to Almalinux 9 and realizing how much better life could be if I just purged Microsoft from my household, I installed Linux Mint on my laptop and have used it ever since. If I had any less of a warm welcome into Linux for home computing, I might have just stuck with Windows 10.

I consider myself somewhere between a layperson and a power user. I’m pretty comfortable with BASH since I work with servers a lot, but low-level stuff is still black magic to me. I’m aware that KDE Plasma has a ton of cool bells and whistles (I use Nobara on my gaming rig), but other than KDE connect for sharing clipboard, I don’t really need any of that fancy stuff on my laptop. And I think the typical layperson probably won’t even set them up in the first place.