[mouacyk]

Thanks everyone! I'm gonna side by side Pop OS and Mint and bounce back and forth between the two to get a solid refresher on LInux.

And just to clear things up, I don't hate Windows. I grew up on dos then Windows once that came out. I'm just looking to try something different, learn a new skill set etc.

If you like to look under the hood, customize, optimize, and use a single toolbox to do everything, roll up the sleeves and start compiling Gentoo. With Portage, you get a very robust dependency resolution system and slotting, so you can always be sure of what you installed and what you didn't. I myself came from the old days of DOS, hacking expanded memory to play the likes of Ultima 7 and 8.