Dope. Thanks! Do you have any other recommendations other than Mint? I wanna try different stuff and see what I like best.

Hopefully my almost 5 year old HP gaming laptop can run Linux better than it does Windows. The thing is on its last legs rn. It isn't anything hella fancy and only has 8GB of RAM. Can't remember how big the SSD is. I got the thing before I was more knowledgeable about computer specs and hardware and all that. I needed a laptop for college at the time and figured that a gaming one could also keep me occupied in the 6 hours I had between classes lol.

Unfortunately for me, my college didn't teach about hardware and specs and all that, despite like 50 or 60 students going to the dean with multiple professors' support asking for at least one new course. We even typed up a whole request and outlined what we wanted to learn and made a petition.

With my major you have three career choices they prep you for: programming, network administration, or database management. Like half of the people in my major wanted to do helpdesk and thought this major would help with that until we were like 1.5 years in and too invested to change majors. The dean turned our request down immediately.

A semester after I graduated, the university merged with two other universities and now they have a whole ass major that revolves around hands on shit that preps for helpdesk jobs. I suck at programming database stuff. I was okay in my four Cisco courses, and those almost got canceled because students were not interested in them because they were hard af.

I got a 4 year degree to increase job prospects. Totally would have went to trade school if I knew what I was getting myself into.

I'm so sorry for rambling like this omg. My sleeping meds kicked in and I tend to go on tangents when that happens. I'm too lazy to get rid of the shit I already typed up, so I apologize if the wall of text is a conversation ender lol.