Thanks for the long answer!

I haven’t heard of most of your abbreviations/term till now so I guess this will be one of the bigger journeys through the world of IT :)

I do have to say for the purpose of tinkering I love these bigger projects because you learn so much on the way. Now having read your answer I am even more exited to try it out :D

Are there any good recources on how to host you e-mail-server?

I guess slapping it on my local raspberry pi wouldn’t be enough no? So you probably need a quite sophisticated setup so that there are no downtimes?

Yes and no. AFAIK when coding assembler for these chips you use CISC-instructions but they get translated into RISC-instructions by a hardcoded mikroprocessing-unit (not sure about the real term). So the processor itself gets RISC-instructions.

The nice thing is that you can test out what you like about linux on mint cinnamon.

I installed it to get to know Linux “the soft way” and now love to use the terminal and got to know a buch of underlying concepts and whatnot. And I still use and love mint cinnamon.

A friend installed it and hasn’t configured anything, just uses its GUI and is very happy that way.

So I think the creators really hit the balance of ease of use and possibility to tinker, while ensuring great stability (“it just works”). Big props btw.