It uses a strongly type language so it teaches good practices, it’s based on a widely used language in the industry, it’s a bloody good course that teaches the fundamentals of programming very well. If you learn better with videos, I recommend this course, but it’s not free.

Sorry to be pedantic, but if you can revive it then it wasn’t really bricked. Depending on how bad it was it was still worth the [Rare] ego item 🧑‍🌾

A good place to start is the University of Helsinki Java MOOC, it starts from zero knowledge and has lots of practice exercises.

I use KDE as I can set it up just how I like it. I never got on with Gnome at all. The truth of it is that the only way to know if you prefer Gnome to KDE is to give it a good try out. Don’t forget Cinnamon, Xfce, and Mate also!

It’s in the aur, so use yay or another aur helper to install it

You can install Octopi or Pamac which both handle the standard repositories and the aur. I don’t know if they handle flatpak or snap though.

I used Tumbleweed for eight years with no problems. I only moved to EndeavourOS because Suse bared their corporate teeth and I got fed up being a couple of generations behind on the Nvidia drivers. EndeavourOS is also good.

Remembers Tumbleweed fondly

Onlyoffice is said to have better compatibility with MS Office so that may be worth a try.