I actually switched to Ubuntu full-time way back in 2006 when I went back to school (anthro major), specifically to help me focus when using my computer and not get distracted by playing video games. Of course, nowadays with wine and proton on steam, that might not be as effective. But it worked well for me, never experienced any issues with word docs opening in libre office (or rather open office back then) or vice versa. There was once or twice where I had to use a computer in the lab in the library to run some niche program or another for an assignment, but not a big deal.

Fargo, but I love it anyway.

I believe Bhutan is generally considered to be the happiest nation, but I’ve never been there, so don’t quote me on that.

On Android, I use Feeder and Nunti. Both are open source and available on f-droid.

Could it be a connectivity check for captive portals?

Ok, try starting steam with

steam -forcedesktopscaling 1.25

You can change the menu entry for steam to this if you want (or make a new one). You may also need to go into steam’s settings and toggle the “scale text and icons…” setting under interface, if it isn’t toggled already. Hopefully that works for you.

Are you using the -forcedesktopscaling 1.25 flag when starting steam, or just relying on the display settings in cinnamon?

I’d suggest checking out the official installation instructions linked at the top of the mint homepage. They’re pretty good.

How does voting work across federated instances? I appear to have both up and down vote buttons, since I’m viewing from another instance, do they not actually work? Otherwise, what prevents trolls from other instances from brigading a thread?