Well

Also a lot of instances block those porn instances so you won’t see them even in your “all”.

To be fair, testing in a VM is for seeing the basic fundamentals of the OS. Ok, let me try to help with a couple of things then.

For finding you distro:

1. Find your favourite environment. Is it GNOME, is it KDE, Cinnamon, maybe it’s Xmonad or dwm? There are a lot of these and you should test this first. Distro doesn’t really matter in this step. Just find one with the desired environment and test it in a VM.
2. Once you find your perfect environment, find out if you want a really stable system or something cutting edge? Maybe something balanced in between. Distro still doesn’t matter in this step. Once you decide what you want, now you can find distros that suit this.
3. Choose you favourite init system (Optional). Some people like to control what’s under the hood. Just note that, not choosing systemd will filter a lot of distros here. If you don’t care what’s under the hood, skip this step.
4. Now you have narrowed down to possibly 3-10 distros. Still a lot. However this step is where you choose your favourite package manager. If you don’t care about the mechanism, just pick one you liked from the default installations of them. If you are using Linux for some time, you might already have a favourite package manager.
5. Congratulations, you have found your distro. Just use it and see for yourself.
6. Wait, it might still not be the correct one. However you cannot know this without using them daily. Some people stay with what distro they start, some people distrohop a lot and settle on Debian. And some other love their niche distro that works nicely for them. Stay with what really clicks with you.

Why don’t you try distros in a virtual machine first?

Then Sway might be a better fit for you. Though I definitely recommend Niri, since it’s a fresh look for tiling WMs.

Sway is also nice if you prefer more traditional tiling WM.

I suggest Void Linux and putting Niri + noctalia-shell on it.

I actually like systemd-boot more than GRUB. I see it for 1 second, so I really don’t see the point of theming a bootloader but this is the world of freedom. Any preference is welcome.

Technically it’s a pop-up. You cannot use the window behind when that’s open. If you try to carry the pop-up, it will also carry the main window.

A lot of them don’t even let you unlock the bootloader anymore. Definitely getting harder to find one that let you.

My initial reason was computation freedom. It got so much better in years, I just take the rest as a great bonus.

Eye for an eye

It’s been 4 years already? WTF?

You should check out BraveOS at this point I think.

It sounds like you would enjoy Linux though you should at least know that running your games will need additional hoops comparing to Windows since they’re Windows games, nothing something wild and will be mostly about changing the default WINE to Proton if you use Lutris or Heroic for them. However sometimes you will probably need to troubleshoot for some game time to time, but you’ll get used to that once you learn the idea.

Linux Mint is likely the safest choice here. Zorin is also fine for newbies.

Also note that, a lot of things will be different than Windows, though you can always search for an equivalent for something you used. At least the structure is much more beautiful on Linux, unlike Windows’ chaotic nature.

Yeah, it’s actually quite clean as an interface. Though I also like my graphs. :)

You’re welcome! I also learned it from someone else on Lemmy. :)

Didn’t know about Tickmate. I see why you like it. I guess if I didn’t start with Track & Graph and met Tickmate first, I would go with it. I think both are great on their own.

Had no idea but there is a difference between straight out vibe-coding and making it fix the code. Still not ideal though.