Sorry, I just noticed that now.

You may create a bootable/live USB with Mint [1] installed on it, and try it out to see if its works perfectly for you - from functional and performance POV.

With Linux, at least you will continue to get security patches. For Win 7 and 10 are out of support now.

[1]https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/burn.html

When it comes to Nvidia driver for Linux, my suggestion is - always stick to the version you find stable enough.

In my case, Last Nvidia 580 driver version works smoothly on my Desktop. Earlier I was on 550.

On a side note, faulty RAM often cause system freeze/crash. You might want to run memtest from boot menu as well.

Off-topic: For RSS feed, you might want to have a look at Miniflux[1] if your also into self-hosting.

[1] https://github.com/miniflux/v2

Thunderbird

If you consider the core count in modern server grade CPUs, this makes sense.

Nate’s side of this story:

https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/16/a-few-corrections-about-the-transition-from-blue-systems-to-techpaladin

UX is a subjective topic.

Using Firefox since v1.0.2 and no plan to switch to any other browser.

All concerns that people have about Mozilla/Firefox, can be solved by tweaking preferences in about:config; nothing is hard-locked by Firefox developers.

This is the most likely reason why all of sudden there is an uptick in attempt to embed malware in AUR build scripts.

Flatpak does have a concept of Verified Publisher. Many distros ship flatpak app store with default filter set to Verified Publisher only.

Mozilla should make Fakepost source code open-source so that people (with right hardware) can self-host it.