haui_lemmy,

I have barely any experience yet I set a super high goal and am surprised when stuff breaks.

There, fify. Jokes aside, good you tried.

If you really want to ditch windows I suggest something easy like mint or pop_os (which I use on my nvidia laptop). Its important to learn the differnces and get used to the OS before learning tons of new stuff.

Most important thing to learn imo: there are two really noteworthy DEs (Desktop Environments), gnome and kde plasma. The rest imo is more or less similar to either of these, at least imo.

The only thing a normal user really interacts with most of the time are DEs. So the are no reason to choose a distro over another.

The distro itself often isnt really different either. Most defferences will come down to how the tasks are performed (ie systemd) and packages/package management.

Debian based distros work well for beginners from what I see (except debian itself imo). Debian, ununtu, mint and pop come from the same roots. Especially debian stable isnt something I can recommend atm but you do you. I use debian on my desktop with kde and nvidia and it fkin sucks without tinkering. I think kde isnt in a great spot atm with nvidia as they also dont support the proprietary drivers on kde neon (ubuntu based).

I personally have no exp with fedora so I cant really comment on that.

Arch has been a great learning experience but it was too much for me as a daily so I left it on a vm. I might come back to it at some point.

Good luck.

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