Emacs is worth trying for a month or two at a minimum. I don't really use Emacs for note taking primarily, so I'm not sure of what packages people use.

If your new to emacs completely, I'd start with the official tutorial by opening emacs and typing C-h t (or in the menu bar at the top selecting tutorial). It takes an hour or so to complete.

Then I would just start using emacs to do any tasks you like, while reading Mastering Emacs by M. Petersen. It's very expensive for a book, at $50, but you can find EPUB formats online for free.

Sorry for the confusion, poster is right. Podcasts should be available for Mint since they support flatpaks by default.

I originally meant that Podcasts adheres to the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (Software designed for Gnome in mind has a particular look and feel).

If your using the Gnome Desktop Environment for Linux, Podcasts was designed with Gnome in mind. It's worth giving it a try, but I'm not 100% if it covers all features your looking for. Primarily packaged as a flatpak.

If your main purpose is gaming you may want to try one of the gaming oriented distributions (e.g., CachyOS, PikaOS, Nobara, Bazzitte).

But Fedora Workstation or the KDE spinoff are fine as well. It's a great general purpose operating system to learn the fundamentals on (e.g., file systems, file permissions, bash scripting, package manager and so on).

YouTube is a good resource to learn on how to maintain and repair your bicycle.

Bicycles do require some specialized tools so check to see prices for tools versus bicycle shop services in your area (most things can be done with standard tools though).

Safety first, lights (to see and be seen) and helmet are smart investments.

Other than that, store your bicycles somewhere safe and use a good quality locks.

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Yeah, a commerical VPN isn't necessarily for everyone, especially if your needs/threat model are already covered.

Spinning your own wireguard or openvpn service at home or on a VPS does allow you to access your home or VPS network though, which has different functionality from a commercial VPN

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Gnome so nice!!!

The shape of his glasses are nice.