

I expect we’re eventually going to start seeing AI in more sensible places and these NPUs will prove useful. Hopefully soon the bubble will burst and we’ll stop seeing it crammed in everywhere, then it’ll start being used where it actually improves a product rather than wherever an LLM will fit.
I don’t use Mint so I can’t talk too much about the software choices. Transmission is a simpler more user friendly torrent client. It used to be the go-to client on Mac, maybe it still is. I find it a bit too simple so I use qBitTorrent as well.
You’ve moved to a completely new ecosystem. There’s lots of software out there and most of it’s free so give it all a go. I know in Windows when you install something and then remove it they always seem to leave traces around. Linux is much better at cleaning up so there’s no real reason not to install something you want to try.