Fedora, it fucking slaps and worked right out of the box. I’m using it for work and play on my main rig! I dual boot for some very specific hardware things that are not normal, but other than that it’s been seamless! When I booted into Windows 10 again, they auto installed copilot… Glad to be done with this crap.
My best piece of advice to new Linux users is to always discover and learn about more free software rather than trying to fit proprietary programs, you’d be surprised at how unnecessary old habits were (example: using ffmpeg/imagemagick to convert multimedia or yt-dlp to download youtube videos rather than going to websites or using standalone programs).
you won’t regret it
alternativeto.com is a fantastic resource to discover the libre alternative to whatever you have used previously
You can pry Gentoo from my cold dead hands, but Fedora was very pleasant to use for years, pretty robust, and what I set up for friends/family who aren’t locked-in to the Microsoft ecosystem.
Thanks for the tip! I can only take in a little at a time on the info though. I’ll def save the link. I loved W10, it was great when I first got it but look what they did to my boy!