See if there are any organizations with a focus on civil protection and disaster control out there. Examples in Germany are THW and DRK. A lot of them are looking for volunteers who'll spend some of their free time training. You'll learn a lot and do something good.

Despite my username, I ditched EndeavourOS a few days ago because an update broke it and installed fedora

Ok boomer

Of course those commands only work for arch-based distros, but it is completely possible to adapt them to fedora or debian-based distros

alias upgrade="sudo pacman -Syu && yay -Syu && sudo flatpak upgrade"

Fennec, Firefox from the f-droid-store

Have you ever heard of the F-droid-store?

It's great because I guess your user agent is now Firefox, but actually Apple only allows one Browser engine

Snap is container Software. It's a program that runs software in an isolated area. Snaps is made by canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. And it's really hatred because, IIRC, it's very slow and not completely open source

Mint is definitely not overrated. It has done much for the community because they created a distro that is easy to understand if you switch to Linux, easy to maintain and mostly works out of the box. Also they don't use snap.

Linux Mint offers the option to install it as a secondary operating system so if something doesn't work on Linux, you can just switch

At 4:30 in the mornin', I'm milking cows