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Here are some I can think of at the moment, these are most likely local to Estonia and local to Tallinn for the choclate store:

• https://karukombucha.ee/ if you are into fermented drinks this one is the best available in Estonia in my humble opinion. It is a living food so qualitiy varies a little, batch to batch.
• https://orto.ee/en/products Cosmetics and cleaning products. I like their soaps and shampoos, not quite Japanese/Korean level but better than most supermarket stuff. My fave Orto products:
  • https://orto.ee/en/product/strengthening-shampoo-puhas-loodus-burdock-250ml/ Works well for my sensitive scalp, better than fancy/expensive shampoos.
  • https://orto.ee/en/product/gentle-cosmetic-cream-soap-3-l/. My one soap for all my hygiene needs. Feels nice on my, prone to overstimulation skin. I dislike most creams and lotions so I need a soap that doesn't dry my skin too much.
• https://karamelle.ee/kontakt/ My source of high quality dark chocklate in Tallinn. They also make my favorite flavour: cinamon dark chocklate. Other notable products: many flavours of hand crafted zefir and pralines. If you really like dark chocklate try their 100% coca choclate, very smooth texture and strong flavour, not sweet.

I don't know much about compression algorithms. What are the benefits of doing this?

My editors

• Professionally I use Jetbrains stuff (intellij, pycharm, etc).
• At home I use Neovim because I like to have lsp support, I'm too cheap to pay for IDE's and I dislike VSCode for personal reasons. For quick edits I use default text editor e.g. kate/gedit.

My opinions on learning new editors

• If you need to go fast now, use what you know best.
• If you have time to learn just try whatever looks cool. Learning a new editor/way to edit text will broaden your horizons even if you don't end up using it.

While I agree philosophically and would prefer the Debian based version. I personally have had issues with it, myabe it's my Nvidia graphics.

So for a beginner I would reccomend the version that is considered the "main" version at the moment. Currently it is still Ubuntu based afaik.

Why would anyone criticize Mint as a suggestion? It's easy to use and stable. I have been using it on my main pc for abut a year with barely any issues (i had more problems on windows). I have tried other distros: mutable, immutable, rolling etc but I always come back to Mint if I want things to just work.

P.S. I have used ubuntu professionally for about 7 years and while I don't always like it, it is still a solid choice.