You can change the directory.

You might want to look at distrochooser.de. That said, Linux Mint and OpenSUSE are good, stable distros.

Oh it’s definitely typst!

I have found LibreX/LibreY to be quite good, as long as you use a stable instance

BQN is a newer array based language (similar to APL) where you manipulate arrays with different functions and modifiers and compose the modifiers with more modifiers (combinators). Uiua is the same but instead of combinatorics you have a stack that you can manipulate, so it’s a stack based, array oriented language. Here is a nice video about Uiua, and here is a video comparing the two.

For getting actual stuff done: Rust For playing around: Uiua or BQN

Well the desktop gui is still in beta (literally less than a week old, iirc). So I wouldn’t expect it being on the website until it’s fully functional. (And it’s a GUI desktop client now)