They didn’t mention battery life once, and it doesn’t even have a torch?

Arduino programming is basically C++ with helpers so yeah you learn a lot!!

I would suggest a different approach. Think about what you want to achieve with programming. Look at the languages which can be used to do this task. Choose one and try some tutorials, I recommend freecodecamp it helped me a lot.

I can’t really comment on zig and go but I think they are pretty serious languages tbh.

100% agree about JS but it’s hard to avoid.

I switched to Catchy from Manjaro a few months ago, no regrets. Been using Linux for +10 years and it’s the best distro so far.

I’m not a gamer but installed steam and lutris since it’s so easy to do and it was seamless, works out the box.

But for me as a developer the real gain was their AMD support. I can confirm that my laptop is genuinely faster now. If you have have AMD processor, just look up CatchyOs enhancements.

The great windows 10 shutdown is coming in a couple of weeks and I still haven’t upgraded my wife’s laptop! The main holdup is backing up, it turns out that hibernation need to be disabled in Windows 10 to do a proper backup, otherwise there is some sort of encryption on the backup. I wasted 2 days on this already copying 500GB just in case upgrade fails.

Upgrading to mint of course!