I just installed mint for the first time as well. I did have some strange issue for an unsupported wifi adaptor. It’s for my custom built desktop that’s like 15 years old. I ended up getting a new kernel supported USB wifi. That was plug and play.
The install process was so easy
Its hard because I wouldn’t envy any new tech job seekers out there. From what I can see there aren’t any entry level jobs in the field that being said I don’t know what degree I would suggest that would have a good future career out of. I went into Data Science 8 years ago because it was going to be the high paying job of the future. I wouldn’t recommend that now because there are no entry level jobs and those that exist are usually filled quickly
Python does have a year option that they are not using. Depending on the application I would use 365 for a year to get a consistent number of days.