Mint would be a perfect distro to start with. Don’t listen to them—just download Mint. I don’t like Ubuntu but honestly it would be fine too. In other words, although it does matter, it does not matter as much as people say as long as you do not start with something to too hard to install.

Mint is lovely! I started out with it years ago and still use it today.

Please do not care about people shitting on popular distros. As a gentoo user myself, it's as niche as it gets, but I will wholeheartedly recommend Ubuntu and mint.

People shit on any distro 😂 just get whatever works for you, differences aren’t that big, after all.

I personally like the easy version of Arch (endeavourOS) and install stuff there only using yay in terminal (yay [name of program you nees])

I have a question for you, coming from a long time Linux user. How do you decide which car to buy? There are so many options, each have their own mileage, comfort, capabilities. Would you say it's difficult buying a car?

Mint’s fine. I might also recommend PopOS - it just seems to be less crappy Ubuntu.

yea just go mint it's goated.

If you come from Windows Mint is an excellent starting point. People shit on it because it doesn't have all the fancy bells and whistles you get with more latest releases, but on the flip side it's super reliable and as a new user that reliability is worth more than all the bells and whistles.

Don't listen to people. Choose any distro that is newbie friendly. If you don't choose, you are still choosing. The worst of your choices is probably better than what you are currently using.

Use EndeavourOS