I’m not an expert, but my take on Reticulum is that while it is technically very good, it lacks practicality, because as a new user you have a very difficult time connecting to anyone. It’s chief strength and chief weakness at the same time is that it is a protocol for pure peer-to-peer networks.

I think most people will find that if they make an effort to learn to use Linux well, they will look back in five or ten years and be so glad they did.