My editors

• Professionally I use Jetbrains stuff (intellij, pycharm, etc).
• At home I use Neovim because I like to have lsp support, I'm too cheap to pay for IDE's and I dislike VSCode for personal reasons. For quick edits I use default text editor e.g. kate/gedit.

My opinions on learning new editors

• If you need to go fast now, use what you know best.
• If you have time to learn just try whatever looks cool. Learning a new editor/way to edit text will broaden your horizons even if you don't end up using it.

While I agree philosophically and would prefer the Debian based version. I personally have had issues with it, myabe it's my Nvidia graphics.

So for a beginner I would reccomend the version that is considered the "main" version at the moment. Currently it is still Ubuntu based afaik.

Why would anyone criticize Mint as a suggestion? It's easy to use and stable. I have been using it on my main pc for abut a year with barely any issues (i had more problems on windows). I have tried other distros: mutable, immutable, rolling etc but I always come back to Mint if I want things to just work.

P.S. I have used ubuntu professionally for about 7 years and while I don't always like it, it is still a solid choice.

I second markdown with Nextcloud notes and I'll add Markor as Android markdown editor. I use the Nextcloud Android client to sync my notes folder. On desktop I use any text editor that has markdown syntax highlighting and/or Nextcloud Notes app on the web.

Pixel polishing. A term we use for frontend code at work (all backend developers).

Like dotfiles. Where most of the customizing happens.

It is not immutable, but use Linux Mint for my tv computer. It is similar enough to windows that my so has no promblem using it. I use it with a 2 in 1 keyboard/touchbad from logitech.