exercism.org has a rust track.

Just working on learning racket. I'm very much a beginner in racket and lisp.

Bingo. This is the explanation.

Driver support will always potentially be an issue unless you buy laptops that are built for Linux, or are well vetted. This is because Microsoft has near total market control and Linux support is usually reverse engineered later if the drivers source is never shared.

Same thing for gaming -- gaming support on Linux is mostly a bunch of ad hock hacks, because those games were never made to run on Linux in the first place.

So, if you want to commit to Linux, make it an informed choice. You will need to make some sacrifices. Or you could always just dip your toes and only use Linux for running a server or hosting a website.

Local python uses ~/.local/bin, so in the interest of avoiding conflict, it is probably better to use ~/bin.