Congrats, Mint is a great choice if you needs the job to be done.

Stroustroup textbooks aren’t for Visual Studio? At least Programming: theory and practice?

Fredom to what? To wasting time on configuration of every basic functionality of my computer?

The CLI installer was not a problem. The problem is complete lack of stability, inability to use software like AutoCAD, Inventor or CorelDRAW, and wasting hours of short life for configuration of things, about which you just do not need to think on Windows. Anyway, the least useless distro I found is MX Linux, but after few years with experimenting with Linux, I happily went back to Windows.

after i did such a harm to myself (installing arch), now i use windows 11

2, without hesitation. Can’t be so bad.

MX Linux is stable and friendly too.