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For those of you that are tired of Microsoft's bullshit, a great place to start is Linux Mint or, if you want to be on the bleeding edge with a rolling distro that still gets some testing, openSUSE Tumbleweed (which is what I'm using).
Signed,
Linux daily driver convert of ~3 months now.
I started with Mint, but for Windows users I'd advise openSUSE too.
There's an issue, though, with them preparing for the next big release to become something like Fedora Silverblue or I don't remember. But for now it's a distribution with the corporate feeling in a good sense as strong as with Windows, almost none of that feeling in a bad sense, and it's very polished.
I went through quite a few distros to find one that would cooperate with my laptop and opensuse is the one that did it.
Same reason I picked it. I did some distro hopping when I made the switch and Tumbleweed was the first one I tried that my motherboard audio worked with.
Did you try leap before tumbleweed because I still have a few issues I am running on bandaids right now.
No, I tried Mint and Manjaro for a couple weeks each and a couple other distros I’ve forgotten cause I just booted them up, checked audio was broken, and replaced them. But I know Leap wasn’t one of them.
I found endeavour (arch) to be a much simpler experience vs fedora or opensuse or void. Tpm chip worked right away, clear instructions for setting up secureboot with a hook that signs everything as it's updated, etc. I could barely get void to boot, opensuse worked well but after a power outage the tpm stopped working and I was never able to get it back, fedora I had no success with tpm. I'm sure that's all pretty variable depending on hardware.
If you aren't looking for full functionality of your hardware most any distro should be fine, but...why sacrifice security?