It’s funny you mention Linux Mint, it was the only other distraction I could get lost in for hours. I’d still be fine with Mintfor personal browsing. At the time, I was running mint in a vm on MacOS to try it out and Cinnamon was much more performant than Ubuntu 18. Ubuntu 19/20 however seems to have narrowed or closed that gap.

So far Ubuntu has been great as a default dev/staging workstation. It’s nice not to have to fight with homebrew or docker permissions or other issues on the Mac and spin up most anything.. and it just works.