1. See other recommendations for gaming-specific distros as I’m not familiar with them… Overall, most “beginner-friendly” distros (Fedora, Mint, …) that are not named Ubuntu are good. Ubuntu is not bad per-se: they just have their own ways of doing certain things that are counter-intuitive. Also don’t follow the memes and use Arch Linux or something (Arch is good, but not-beginner-friendly)

2. Some multi-player games have anti-cheats that straight-up won’t work on linux, so if you play any large online-based games it might help to check their linux support first. Otherwise, there are unique examples like Skyrim that are very hard to mod on linux, but most mainstream games should work either out-of-the-box or with very minor tinkering. Unless if you’re into some weird esoteric retro games like me… if so then good luck learning WINE lol

3. As long as you follow 1 you should be fine. In my opinion most beginner linux distros are more intuitive than Windows so…

4. I’m not sure if it is a good idea to dual boot unless you are reasonably familiar with computers… as dual booting can be finicky and sometimes Windows can just eat the linux partition. But I think it is doable? Again I don’t recommend dual-booting so…

5. IMO the biggest decision most beginners have to make is between Gnome/KDE (two of the most popular desktop environments), not between distros. Try to see which one clicks with you more! Also make sure to back up data before switching. Good luck!

Just because two sides are fighting doesn’t mean one side is good (something along this line)

… I don’t think it is that profound, but I think about it a lot

Option 2

Not that I dislike 1, but between me being on the spectrum and having experience living alone in a foreign country w/o family for close to 10 years (and literally could only talk with family using video chats), I think I would be much more competent than the average person on living in the latter… Which also helps free out more space for ppl in option 1

I think the best fit would be an immigration lawyer? Those ppl are incredibly expensive (probably in the $1000s to begin with) and are country-specific, so mostly only ppl who have difficult cases do that…

Can try to search the subreddits r/iwantout and r/immigration first, they have lots of good resources and past posts. Also can try expat.com

Also don’t make my mistake… finding a job in a foreign country is incredibly hard, even with a doctorate. So it helps to cast a wide net and/or get a job offer first before making further plans

Oh boy I do have some hilarious career-related stories! But yeah, I very seriously considered taking a job in Germany at one point (didn’t end up happening). Maybe I’ll chat a bit more about it somewhere else

Four. English, Chinese, Japanese, German.

Among these German is the only one where I’m not confident in my language capacities… So I almost beat OP in the bet :P I just happened to have learned German up until ~A2 for career reasons but dropped it since my plans changed. Other three I’m all very fluent in. I am also learning French but ironically I only know 1/2/3 because I’m a complete newbie…

I spent the last 10 years in the US so my internal monolog is a bit messed up… I primarily count in English which is not my native language. If it is a long number I’ll use Chinese since it is more efficient (one syllable each for 0-10)

Two cats. Some of these are translated from my first language (I use it interchangeably with English with these two…)

The calico: Mew

• Meow
• Meeeeoooooooow (when she is sad & I have to call her)
• Ms. Majestic (or something like that)
• Big Mew
• House tiger

The void: Tommy

• Thomas (his official name, when he’s majestic)
• tom (when he’s derpy)
• ROTUND/Massive object
• Le creature
• Fat Tommy/Tommy Fat/My-Fat-Tom/My-Tom-Fat (yup it’s just shuffling words)

Both:

• Massive fluffs
• Le chonkers (or something like that; one came in as a skinny stray & the other was a baby, but they are both very well-fed now)

Tommy is on a diet I promise