I see a future where all computing is done in the cloud and home computers are just dumb terminals. An incredibly depressing future. Customers not users is the goal.
I don't have any good movie recommendations but I very much enjoyed listening to the albumAvec Laudenum by Stars Of The Lid when I was zonked out on morphine.
I think it was the general lack of consistency. Everything felt a bit messy. This was almost 20 years ago and back then the BSDs had some features that were missing in Linux.
If Ubuntu works for you then that's good. Don't listen to the gatekeeping weenies who shit on people for not using arch or whatever. Most of them haven't built their os from source and are just roleplaying having a unix beard.
Looks like it comes with more preinstalled applications and a custom themed gnome desktop. As far as I can find the extra preinstalled applications are available in the default ubuntu repos.
No one should be surprised that known sex pest Krauss was mixed up with Epstein.