At work and in tests you’ll be using bloomberg terminals, risk software, etc only available on Windows, so why bother?

Unviable for economics and finance in my experience. Excel is absolutely mandatory for these

Damn, that’s a high bar to clear. Almost none of the distros I know pass their criteria

I’m not trying to be mean, but I didn’t really understand much of that. Can you translate from your native language on DeepL or something?

Can someone clue me in to why Mint wouldn’t be “libre”? What does “libre” mean in this context exactly?

They can and most of the time they do complain about free apps

The main reason why I use open source is precisely because I don’t need or want to worry about this crap. The software is as much property of humanity as it is of the creator, it is basically just knowledge

League was the reason I stalled so long, too, but honestly, Riot is just as bad as Microsoft. Vanguard is unacceptable and we should make our voices heard by not playing their games anymore. There are so many great games running just fine on Linux, nowadays I don’t even feel like I’m restricted at all