<< A handy skill to develop would be getting comfortable with installing and trying news ones I second this advice. While I can safely recommend PopOS, Mint an

<< A handy skill to develop would be getting comfortable with installing and trying news ones I second this advice. While I can safely recommend PopOS, Mint and Nobara ( specifically if you still want gaming ), they all have their own little quirks that will eventually make you want to improve upon. I started with PopOS and started developing opinions on systemd, grub, gnome and all sorts of things I would not think twice before. That said, I would skip Ubuntu. It is trying to be Windows a little bit too hard and it shows. edit: And trying stuff in VMs makes it extra easy.