Oh, I’m not complaining! I love helping my junior engineers… It does take time out of the day though, so I thought it would be worth mentioning! 
Painfully relatable; add in junior devs pinging for quick pair sessions to help with their sprint items between all the meetings and that's my day! lol
A bit basic, but I have a TODO.md in my documents folder that I keep up to date. Markdown so I have an easier time formatting links to websites or other relevant documents.
Pop!_OS. Sensible defaults and it's based off of Ubuntu, which is the distro I'm most familiar with.
Looks like some interesting bugfixes; I'll have to try out the fix for bulk track imports from rhytmbox.
Usually 10 minutes. Reading a book helps if it's taking longer.
I've had really good luck with Pop!_OS. AMD CPU and NVIDIA GPU, so having the NVIDIA drivers bundled is nice.
Most games in my Steam library work out of the box with no tinkering of Proton. I've lucked out in that the games that do require tinkering work with Proton Experimental or Glorious Eggroll's releases. Lutris is the same, though I just default to the latest Glorious Eggroll release.