My first non-family PC was a Acer netbook with Linpus [Lite] Linux. I was 12, so my first priority was trying to get Rollercoaster Tycoon to work. Eventually I realized how silly that prospect was and instead managed to install Windows XP via a bootable USB. I used XP for a while until Vista came out, and then I gave Linux Mint a try and really liked it. These days I’m using NixOS and Fedora.
Ugh had a similar experience at work related to the chromium package. In our case it had to do with the
arm64
build of chromium in an environment that can’t run snaps (docker), so we were pretty much entirely without a solution.