English, Spanish, Basque, French, some Russian, currently learning German.

What about using commas? “The monkey who, I’m wondering, can see my ears”.

Mint 21 is not any heavier on my hardware as far as I can tell. As for not doing a backup, well, it’s not a great idea, but it’s better than eventually using an unsupported version of your OS (and 99% of the time the upgrade will go fine, especially if you didn’t do any weird changes that might mess with the process).