If you do try Linux, I highly highly recommend Linux Mint, since it’s the most newbie friendly.
I’d rather recommend an immutable distro like bazzite. Mint was ok, but pretty messed up if something didn’t work. If you mess up your immutable distro, all you need to do is reboot.
Immutable distros will likely become the standard in the future, but at the moment I think they’re a poor choice for newbies since there’s very little documentation around them, very few people who can help if something goes wrong, and often can introduce their own problems due to flatpak permissions that require their own specialized knowledge that a newbie won’t have.
When I tried bazzite, I encountered an issue that someone else had reported on the forums months ago, which had never received a response due to how stretched thin the UBlue team are.
Mint on the other hand works fine 99% of the time, and has heaps of help resources available for it. It also strongly suggests setting up a snapshot of your system that you can rollback to if anything ever messes up, which pretty much puts it on par with bazzite in that department.
True it’s rather new but I’ve had basically the opposite experience. Mint broke a lot of stuff, couldn’t get my audio working properly at all, lots of help forum posts are for old versions and fuck up your system, while bazzite just worked and I could jump straight into customization. I’m not trying to dissuade the use of mint, I just think by now there are a lot of valid alternatives.
Or else, https://distrochooser.de/ might be a useful help to make a suitable choice (which probably comes down to Linux Mint or Zorin anyway)
