Google isn’t proceeding. Maybe now they’ll realize YouTube is also suffering from their poor decisions.

I use mint and I really like it. It’s an easy familiar transition from windows.

Arch is for user’s who want to start with a completely blank slate. Like there’s no file system when you start, as far as I know. Think of arch like windows but nothing is installed, not even explorer.exe

Honestly retro is anything I have the ability to backup and preserve. Now that digital stores are the default if I can back it up. It’s retro. Not much you can download and just have or not need an offline component.