You can also switch to LibreWolf for better privacy but don’t try to take all the steps at once. Slow and steady is better.

The license isn’t the best? That license sucks. Probably one of the worst on Github.

Wait, Pop_OS switched to rolling release?

First of all, welcome.

Don’t try to install many different distros in a short span unless you are a distro-hopper. Just pick one and do everything on that. Manjaro would cause problems especially if you enable AUR. If you want cutting-edge and still want to use GUI for management, I suggest OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

For hard disk read-only situation, that happens with NTFS partitions for safety reasons. You can change that with Gnome Disks by setting auto mount and user options. Know that NTFS is a Windows file system and runs on a compatibility system on Linux.

It’s better to start with beginner friendly distros. Some people even settle with one distro and use it without changing ever. Unless you want to discover under-the-hood features, most distros will look the same.

Also, things work differently on Linux. Once you get used to them, you’ll find them more straightforward comparing to Windows. However, getting used to them might be a challenge for some people. Get ready to read Wikis.

Don’t be hasty. Continue to use Windows until you feel ready while creating your ideal workspace.

Go for functionality before starting customization anything, you can do that anytime.

I think that’s nice as long as people can jailbreak them.

While this is true for my another older netbook (40 W), my netbook’s power consumption for running Pi-hole is ~15 W. I think it’s acceptable for such operation. 5 W is tempting though.

I’m using my old netbook as Pi-hole and some home server stuff. Does its job.

It wouldn’t be worse than snap integration which Mint already doesn’t use. Also Mint have a backup plan called LMDE if things go sour.

Basically like that but Frankenstein saying it.

Depends on what you need actually. I was doing fine with urxvt on Xorg, so foot is a perfect alternative for me on Wayland.

Mushrooms are more close to animals than plants though.

Jevons didn’t know that autonomous vehicles can work like a hive mind, today it’s possible.

You can try that on Elite Dangerous.

That’s a good analogy.

It doesn’t use Visual Basic for its macros so I wouldn’t expect a complex compatibility. To be fair Excel macros is usually a problem outside of MS Office.

It’s nice to see more countries making chips.

It’s not open source but probably has the best compatibility. You can give it a shot.

https://www.freeoffice.com/en/

Needs an account after one week though.

Just use 2 PB Google Drive as swap.

Not Linux but Haiku would run on it I think.

As a calligrapher, this is not pleasing to look at. Far from it.