I started mainlining Linux about a year and a half ago after playing with it for a bit in 2007-ish and running a headless server for a decade or so.

I just installed Ubuntu because that was what Framework officially supported. I can’t think of what a newbie user would find lacking with Ubuntu. It does about everything that Windows does fine. I’ve heard similar things about Mint. Why do we have to over-complicate things for new users? Just shove them towards a distro and let them know they can probably fix whatever they don’t like with a reinstall later.

Proceeds to use it exclusively for browsing the web.

sitting on it’s morals

Assuming that’s not a typo, the phrase is “sitting on its laurels”.

They’d never agree to share the jet.

Yeah. That used to be the case in the US, but it’s illegal now.

There should be a requirement where the people who decide to lay folks off actually have to show up and tell them in person.