Just like everyone else, I'll also recommend forgejo. But be prepared to handle bot traffic if you self-host it. My instance was hit almost constantly until I added strict rate limits, and made most of the stuff private. For a portfolio, I think Codeberg (or GitHub, that's where everyone looks for stuff) is better that self-hosting. But it can be good to keep a private instance for mirrors.
When coding, I usually listen to Indian classical. It can't have any lyrics, as I get distracted by them.
When studying (it's my actual job, I'm a mathematics researcher), I usually prefer white noise, or just a good pair of noise cancelling headphones without anything actually playing on it. Sound of rain works pretty well too.
My first ever big boy language was C++ (after Basic, and Logo, does anyone remember that lol). I was in middle school, tried to self-learn from learncpp.com, only to realize that I had mostly learned C, with cin-cout instead of printf-scanf. So I just decided to migrate to C. Nowadays, I mostly code in Rust, Go, and Python. But my experience with C has been extremely helpful. Can't say the same about C++ though.
There IS one of these for everything, eh?
You're spot on. The same people complain endlessly about Rust being used in the Linux kernel, even though the actual experts are happy with it. It's just culture war bullshit.
I didn't know how much of a change Lunduke had had until recently, when I watched a video by Nicco. I used to watch his Linux Sucks videos 4-5 years ago, and he genuinely seemed like a chill dude.
KDE is great but do give some "better" distros like Fedora, or EndeavourOS (basically Arch) a try. Canonical, the company in control of Ubuntu, is a little bit shady.
Everyone has listed a lot of reasons, and there's also https://manjarno.pages.dev/ which pretty much sums up all the technical reasons.
I'd just like to add why I switched. I used Manjaro for a couple of years, and suggested it to friends and family for a while. It was fine when it worked. But when it didn't, it was a pain to figure out wtf was wrong. Their forum wasn't helpful, and you can't get help in the Arch forums, because it's just different enough. Also, whenever something broke, their logic was always backwards. Like SSL broke for the 5th time, just roll back your clock guys. It felt like being in an abusive relationship with a distro.
I finally switched to EndeavourOS some 4 years ago, and it's been very smooth ever since. In fact, I've had a good experience with pretty much every distro that I've used long term (e.g. AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, and even Ubuntu), except for Manjaro.
I haven't met a single person in the last 5 years who wanted a slimmer phone. Phones are already slim enough. We just want longer battery life.
I develop open-source code. But that never made me one of the “I hate proprietary software or IT giant corporations” types.
Maybe it should've.
Also, I hate the name of the column. The frequent mention of the name "Who, Me?" just takes me out.
Storage, RAM, CPU usage. I prefer not to have such a large piece of software running for no reason. It might seem silly, but I hate using resources for no reason. I'll rather have 5 lightweight apps running instead of a huge one, of which I'll only use a few parts.
Cloudflare may be enough, but you can also look at stuff like Anubis.