I really want to have better tiling and window management in Gnome. Ubuntu has an add-on released with 23.10 that I haven't got around to test yet. And I know that Gnome has that feature in the works, but it annoys me that Windows 11 has better management of windows with window-snapping than my DE of choice.
Learning the fundamentals first (such as networking) is a good way forward. You will propably need to learn many other subjects along the way, such as how system services are handled, permissions in linux, linux system administration in general and so on.
If you just want the fundamentals of networking, these resources are pretty good:
Feel free posting to this community with questions or try finding someone who can be your ballplank. Getting started can be very challenging before you've grasped the basics.
I belive Debian is still based on X11 and haven't made a move to wayland, no? That and many other incompabilities could cause a few issues during re-basing.
I do belive Mint has an experimental debian spin out, as a hedge against Canonical and Ubuntu going down a road that isn't in line with their vision.
I didn't know Mastodon implemented a built-in way to verify your account, this is great news. For those who want to verify on other networks: you can use keyoxide.org for that - however it is a rather cumbersome process. But I know that the developer (@yarmo@fosstodon.org) is aware of it and aim to make it more easier to verify different accounts on different platforms.
I am a simple man, and like simple setups that's easy to maintain.
When it comes to my pictures and private data, I have them on one portable disk, that I rsync over to another portable disk on a monthly basis.
When it comes to my application logs and data, I back them up to a S3-compatible bucket with s3-cmd, through the frequency of my choosing as a cron-job. The S3 bucket is configured for "write once, read many" mechanism to avoid alternation of the data. And if the cron-job fails, I get a notification through ntfy.
A lot of people have already made good comments / replies on this post, but let me argue against the third point ("MS discouragestrying out something new"). This must have been made by someone not even working in a MS ecosystem, because there's a shitton of doing the same thing with a lot of different tools. Or GUIs.
Want to take notes in MS365 echosystem? You have word, Onenote, MS-Teams wiki (that is being deprecated, thank god), Loop components.
Want to save/share a file? You got Onedrive, SharePoint document libraries or MS-Teams (fun fact: they're all using SharePoint as the underlying technology, but depending on the GUI you choose, you get diffrent representation of the underlying files).
Want to manage your tasks? You got To-do, Planner, Flags in Outlook, Tasks in Teams and, drum-roll, MS loop (again!). Thankfully, they all "talk" to eachother so you can at least see all tasks assigned to you when you open your To-do app.
So no, MS does present a lot of different ways to accomplish someting (almost too many...). Whether that is good or bad, I leave it up to the reader, but the new Microsoft certainly is more daring in trying out new things.
I always found the sysadmin sub to have an air of bitterness around it. Instead, I focused on the hobbyist tech-subs (such as selfhosted). Grated, their issues have a smaller scope, but still...
I used Jerboa, but found it clunky. Voyager provides a much nicer experience. I come from having used redreader, so I guess voyager provided a similar experience.
I haven't tried fx yet (but I will soon enough!) but my main gripe with jq is that its not very intuitive or userfriendly to pass arguments to get what I want out of it. fx seems to offer an interactive (TUI) way to interact with its content, wich might be better suited for my usercase where I just want to consume the logs with my eyes. jq is better as a pipe between two commands to process the json data.
I'm eyeing the M1/M2 macs with asahi, but I'm going to let it mature more for a bit before I take the plunge.