Mint is fine. I went with pop!_os because at the time mint didn’t play well with my hardware.

Make sure you test things from the install live disk before you commit. Internet access, displays, audio should all work.

My therapist tells me everyone is doing their best, even the housemate that leaves dirty dishes all over the house and never flushes the toilet. I grapple with this on the regular.

There are state sanctioned kidnappings in the middle of the day. It’s not safe here.

Plus, something like 20-40% of people are proudly pro trump. That’s a lot of idiots and selfish turds. They’re not all concentrated in Texas and Florida, either. I see a trump flag on one of my regular walks in Brooklyn

People believe in capitalism. They believe that the capitalist hiring the cheapest labor, cutting every corner, and keeping every penny is playing by the rules. They are blameless.

The immigrant, however, less so. If they are “illegal”, then they didn’t follow the rules and need to be corrected! But even if they are “legal”, they’re still “supposed” to be second in line.

If the rules are just, who made them, and how they are maintained? Not under question.

It’s a recurring problem with humans that something makes them feel bad, and then they stop listening.

Someone who feels bad about how they didn’t go to college, and then stops listening to the contents, is a fool.

You are correct that there are many such people, and we should probably avoid triggering them, but it’s kind of frustrating we have to constantly walk on eggshells lest someone’s fragile ego cracks and a monster comes out.