And the needle was

Keep it above the waistline.

Yeah, just shiv it right between the cooler blades.

Mint which has for whatever reason been constantly recommended as a go-to distro

I can bring my anecdote to the table:

I was able to mess up my initial ubuntu install so bad, that any time I deleted a file, the system thought I threw out that piece of drive with it. Maybe I reigned back on my careless ‘sudoing’, but Mint was able to take me all the way to the Arch variants without breaking.

Now I just do whatever Endeavour tells me. Next step will be to start messing properly with Arch (and kin), and see what all the fuss is about around FOSS.

Don’t worry, it’ll start getting better and that feeling will not stop. It’s worth sticking out, maybe even trying a few flavors (Mint is a tasty one, though).

I’ve been FOSSing it up since just before the pandemic, and I have yet to utilize most of the convenience Linux provides. Maybe the best way to put it, is that I didn’t realize that I was in a cramped clown car back in my windows days, and now I’m still in that wierd, double-up position in my new, solarpunk limousine. I rarely touch the cli (maybe even less than the cmd tool in the start menu in Windows), but am slowly coming to terms with the possibilities.

The memes definitely hit harder.

Yeah, I can say all manner of things like bork and twiddledee, but I don’t think I can get marblegargler to stick.

Unless a meme picks it up or is in at least the urban dictionary, it doesn’t count.

The peas are ready to roll in.

As someone else said, they probably kept the original age bracket. I’d say it’s at least 5-6 years out of whack. Early Ys are starting their forties, late ones their thirties.

I use Endeavour, btw. Nah, I don’t think it’ll catch one.

I’m super stoked to be on an Arch-based system, but things have been so easy I have earned no bragging rights what-so-ever with it.

I’ve heard that the high tide was end of WW II. Sloping exponentially downwards, with the occasional oil boom or bust.