

You may want to try Pop!_OS at some point too. I’m not sure if it’ll support your card ootb, but it’s supposed to have better initial Nvidia support than other distros. Like Mint, it’s based on Ubuntu, but System76 has customized it a bit to be more gaming-focused.





It’s all variable, and highly dependent on the languages you use, the types of applications you develop, your personal workflows, what you learned with and got used to as you were learning to program, and a myriad of other factors. Painting in broad strokes, like what the meme is doing or what you’re doing, is almost never correct. There’s always nuance.