

To my pleasant surprise, Mint 19.1 is very polished, cool-looking, lightweight and fast - it was also working out of the box, and now I am here bothering you. Plus, WSL is meh! and I don't want to go the VM way, so Linux is the logical choice.

However, my "new's year resolution" in 2019 is: I will be a Web Developer+Python Developer at the end of this year (even if a mediocre one, to start), and I am coming back to Linux - I just can't live with Windows terminal emulators (they are crap), or the damned privacy leeching anymore. without being able to use fully my hardware on Linux, I switched back to Win10. When MS delivered the "marvelous" (cof! cof!) Windows 10, I had tried to go "full Linux" (actually, I had a dual boot system with Windows 10 exclusively for gaming), and that worked until AMD dropped the support for the Catalyst Driver - with that, I was unable to use my Radeon R7 m265 (set in conjunction with an Intel 5500 chip on my Dell Inspiron 5547) - I was trying very hard to set up games on Linux so I could get rid ow MS. Basically, I am a noob who knows how to throw a command in the terminal. I am enamored with Linux since 2008 or so, but never used it seriously, because a) hadn't the time to dive on it b) hadn't the knowledge to solve driver issues at that time c) never worked for an employee which had a Linux system in production. I am being working in IT for the last 12 years, mainly on service desk/customer support (today I am working with service providers, contract management and service recovery/SLA stuff). If you wanna skip the introductory stuff, and just help me with my question (thank you very much, by the way), I will mark the start and end of the "Background Section" First of all, sorry about the long reading ahead.
