Linux Mint DE will be the easiest transition.

Oh hell yeah! LFG!

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They’re all basically the same dude. They’re all GNU/Linux. You have 2 main distros: Debian and Arch. Fedora is a kind of inbetween, there’s SUSE as well, but mostly it’s all Debian and Arch.

Mint, Ubuntu, etc … it’s all just Debian. Use Debian.You can use KDE plasma or Gnome or i3 or whatever you want.

Anybody using the word ‘tankie’ can be safety blocked and ignored.

Stable yea. My PC is a bit older (7 years) and I’ve never had any issues with hardware, even with my nvidia card.

Basically every distro is based on either arch or debian (some exceptions). I’ve been perfectly happy with debian, even as a gamer.

The Deprogram podcast, Hakim, and Second Thought YT channels all exist to address this. It’s rather obvious to anybody willing to learn