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I’ve been in your shoes a few months ago. I tried a few distros in VMs and ended up using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It comes with different GUIs and I decided for KDE. As a beginner TW helped me with the built in snapshots mechanism. So before I did anything, I took a snapshot, did it, and if I fucked up, I could easily rollback and try again. Since TW is a rolling release, I now make a snapshot before and after the system update So I always have some stable Rollback snapshots. Gives me so much safety to fiddle around and learn more about Linux. Been loving it so far.
Make heavy use of ChatGPT. I’ve been chatting about Linux with it for months now.
I switched to Linux recently and been researching on Distros for weeks with tables and stuff. I decided for Tumbleweed with KDE and it just feels so good. Wrote some scripts so I can run a system update with pre and post snapshots and a restart and it gives me so much confidence to tinker around and learn more about Linux. Snapshots in general are just so damn great.
I’ve read The Black Road, Legacy of Blood and The Kindome of Shadow and they’re quite ok. Certainly not the best literature has to offer, but good enough if you dig the lore. Also, they are a quick read and cheap, so perfect for vacations :D
Liftoff works best for me. Looks good, feels good. Tried a few and it just snapped.
MacOS for work. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my private.