I run Mint on one of my machines and have for years. But somehow, over the course of time, my Linux machines start having weird dependency conflicts and issues and after 3-5 years it's time to backup the important stuff and start fresh. Sometimes that's easier than going down the rabbit hole of figuring out why "something that should work" doesn't work, haha.

I've gotten to that point on my Linux Mint machine and not sure what I'll replace it with. May just go raw Debian like I'm using now.

Honestly I just like the layout of mint. It just hits something for me that I can't put my finger on.

Sitting comfortably on Manjaro KDE Plasma at the moment.

Having replaced Kwin, default KDE window manager, whit i3wm, I got great experience both on laptop and on bigger screens.

Plus, not the pain of installing Arch but all the wisdom from ArchWiki and packages from the AUR.

Ah man, wasn't it Microsoft...

Currently using Microsoft Mobile Mouse. Recommend

I second this, I've always used wired.

Yeah, fact is only ports I have are a pair of USB-C, one of which is used for power supply.

Wireless is nice, but I would recommend a mouse with a USB receiver over Bluetooth If your laptop is USB-c only, check out this video: https://youtu.be/V-vFtiDYiIw.

in general bluetooth isn't reliable. if you want stuff to be reliable use a wire.

none, it's done by a cronjob.

terminator >>>

I like the default terminal on pop os. It's simple and just requires 1 click to create a new tab. Super useful.

XFCE terminal because I like the tabs but anything will do in a pinch.