Suggesting NixOS to a completely new user is stupid. NixOS is cool but very different from almost all Linux distros. Comes with its own language you have to learn as well.

Thing is. Mint is for the most part a just works distro. Based on Ubuntu it is very easy to find help for it. Combine that with a load of sane defaults like disabling snaps. The default UI and theme could defiantly use a facelift

While coming up with such flawed laws as well. I doubt they even look at the feedback

Instead of a VPN just route everything true tor. And block anything that tries to get around it.

You can lead a horse to water but you can not make it drink.

Sounds like you are a data hoarder haha. Can’t blame you. But for such hobby’s perhaps a ZFS system with deduplication and a second ZFS system to use for backup of the first system is what you want.

Does get costly though.

Can someone give me a tldr about why the hate towards Pewdiepie? I have not followed him in absolute years.

Oké grandpa, its time to take your meds

The tux logo at boot is due to a kernel option. You can enable this if you like.