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Alright Hexpenguins, the bullying worked...
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I finally switched to Linux, now what? Everything just worked straight away. 
linux is so boring now, you used to be able to get days of troubleshooting out of a simple install
i was expecting it to be a lot more tedious, i was surprised everything worked out of the box. even just clicking on the latest nvidia driver on the set up screen and thats it
It helps that you were given good advice at some point to start with Mint. It's an excellent choice for a general-purpose OS.
Eh Mint has so many outdated packages. I would recommend Ubuntu, Fedora, or PopOS over Mint.
Not a bad choice by any means. The interface is familiar and the base system is close enough to Debian that it's hard not to be a solid beginner distro.
I had a friend recommend Nobara which I think is fedora based and another friend recommend cachyos which they've used without issue for a while. I pretty much picked mint because it was boring and stable
I would actually recommend against Nobara and instead suggest Bazzite which uses the same kernel and adjustments Nobara has but with a much larger team behind it. It's very good for gaming and is a generally more secure OS as it teaches you to sandbox all of your apps.
I've also had Nobara break catastrophically on upgrade before which required a fresh install. If upgrade doesn't work on Bazzite it's trivially fixed by rebasing with one command, and the upgrades themselves aren't likely to break your configs which is very very nice.
So yeah if you ever feel like distro exploring, definitely check out bazzite it's a very new and fresh take on Linux with all sorts of nice new tech in it.
i have no doubt that i will be trying another distro at some point, thank you for the advice
Inevitable.
I think those are pretty bad recommendations.
IIRC CachyOS is just Arch with some compiler optimizations and a better scheduler than default...so not what I would call beginner-friendly.
Seconding what marcie said about Bazzite.
Mint certainly is boring and stable. My recommendation is to use flatpaks for your apps since the packages in the Mint repos might be a few versions behind.
Ikr, even doing LFS gave me minimal troubleshooting to do :/
Time to build your own kernel
And no, I don't mean compiling the Linux one
Yeah I mean next step is trying to build my own distro.
Probably I don't have enough free time to learn enough systems programming to be able to write a kernel but it sounds interesting if I had the time lol