Oh totally. I've actually, off and on, been going back and reading some lower reading level books that I missed as a kid. Loved A Series Of Unfortunate Events and The Spook's Apprentice.
See, that's the situation where we just don't use them. I'm talking about wiping the original OS and putting something that's really FOSS in its place.
I may not have enjoyed using their distro, but I'm really happy to see this. They're really popular in the desktop Linux market and it may help to get more users over here in the Fediverse.
Learn docker. That should probably be #1. That will open up a world of self hosting options.