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LaTeX is your friend

I do the same but Egyptian

I use Egyptian gods!

Mint has a bunch of tweaks to make it more approachable. Apt assumes Sudo, typing passwords shows stars, little things that usually trip new users.

Meta data manager, file organiser by metadata, upload a subset to your device, sync device metadata back to your library, built-in reader, file format conversion, file editing.

It’s a whole suite really.

You already have great answers, so I’ll just drop my recommendations. LMDE if you want something more stable, and Endeavour OS if you want to go a bit more in the weeds with a rolling release.

In the end, don’t be afraid to try some for a few weeks and find one you like. One of the strength of Linux is that if you mess up, you can always reinstall,and it’s not scary since you did it once already.

Just use LMDE.

It’s like iTunes, but for books.

I use the same one! It’s really great. I spent an hour going though the options untill I was satisfied.

If you go in the add-ons you can download themes that completely change the UI. They can also be heavily customized. Useless menus can just be removed.

Love LSD. I always install it first with btop and zoxide

You have to confirm any command before it runs, so no more dangerous than baseline rm

Start setting one up.

I’ve been running Manjaro for about a decade and never had issues. Not saying they don’t exist but I feel like the concerns are overblown.

In addition to other comments, it’s a terrible replacement for forums. Information gets buried quickly, is hard to sort and search through, and conversations get scrambled.

Smokers.

Everything that people liked about 7 was a thing in Vista. AFAIK, people hate on Vista for performance, the automatic updates and the admin access pop-ups. The first one is because they tried to upgrade old XP hardware, a new system ran fine. 7 didn’t really increase performance, people just had new computers by that point. The other 2 issues never changed since, people just got used to them.

8 had an amazing search feature that got completely garbled in 10. The “start menu” wasn’t well received, but worked fine. 10 brought back a smaller compromise version of it. 10 also has much more telemetry, came with the Cortana and default edge Bing searches and had overall a much less pleasant experience.

I feel like Vista and 8 get a bad rep because they where so different from the previous ones, even though they rolled some of that into the successors and worked really well. And 10 really accelerated the enshitification of Windows.

I feel like I’m alone in this but Vista was great. I preferred it and 8 over 7 and 10.

Wireless means you have to deal with batteries. I’d rather plug stuff in and never worry about it.