It's important to note that bit rate is only part of the story. Spotify uses the Ogg Vorbis file format which is a lossy compression algorithm (just like MP3). 256 kb/s .ogg vs 320 kb/s .mp3 both offer about the same sound quality, it's not likely one could differentiate between them in a blind test.

I don't think I've ever seen this meme in such a high resolution

If I was back in college and using Linux for the first time, I'd probably go with Fedora tbh. Arch is a pain in the rump for a first-time user and Fedora really is a "it just works" distro whilst still maintaining speed and keeping things up to date with it's (more or less) rolling release schedule.

I didn't use Linux in college, but I did use many FOSS tools. LibreOffice is easily my favorite office suite and there's no contest. So long as you export your documents as .PDF or submit them as .DOCX, nobody is likely to know or even care what you used to type them.

This is likely to be similar for other types of software- as long as your finished product is compatible and looks good on the proprietary software, you shouldn't run into any issues.

BTW, the university had student access for Microsoft Office. I could have chosen to use their tools at any time and I simply chose not to.

My first real relationship was in high school at age 18 with somebody who left me kinda burned out with their lack of maturity. It was a rather unhealthy relationship that ended after about a year. After that, I went out with a couple people in college but it never led to anything. Now I'm 24 and last year I met somebody really special. We've been seeing each other for about half a year now and I can confidently say I'm glad to have waited before finding myself in something serious. I truly feel loved and cared for with a certain stability that I didn't have at 18.

I think most people just say Ubuntu to indicate the Ubuntu family of distros. A help guide for vanilla Ubuntu running GNOME should work the same way for Kubuntu with very minor changes i.e. adding a repository for the GNOME software manager vs the KDE software manager.

I know where to point my VPN next time I'm streaming stuff..

For me, it's gotta be Namibia. It's a country in Southern Africa, and the only reason I've come to be aware of it was because I've made a very fortunate contact whilst talking on amateur radio. Two consecutive Decembers I happened upon the same gentleman on the 10 meter band, and he confirmed my QSOs (contacts) on the logbook!

I love Sober!

Ah yeah, you know the gold plated connections make all the difference for the fiber optic connection