It’s great for a server system but I find it less great for a desktop environment. Hardware support take longer to get to the kernel, UI improvements take longer to get to the desktop etc.

You’re going to hear a lot of recommendations, but I strongly suggest going with Fedora for your first distro. It’s the least pain to get up and running with a modern, performant, up to date distro.

Ubuntu these days is its own little corner of design choices, Arch is designed to need configuration, Debian is a (purposefully) a bit slow to keep up. A lot of people say good things about Linux Mint, haven’t used it myself but have used Fedora for years (including at work) and it’s rock solid without much faffing.

Proton is a fork of Wine. It was created by Valve and they have done amazing work getting it to support basically everything. It’s made the steam deck and amazing machine.

Not the same but which (which.co.uk) is a non-profit consumer group. You can pay them subscription and they do non biased and quite detailed reviews of all the normal electrial stuff. I’ve used them for a washing machine, freezer, earbuds, TV, handheld vacuum cleaner.

Deep Rock Galactic. “Well, you just shoot lots of bugs. And there’s different objectives and you can mod your guns in different ways”. Doesn’t really sell it like the incredibly enjoyable experience that it is

Learning a new thing. Whether you use it or not, you’ve expanded your mind.

Interesting. I’ve found it pretty good and only ever had one bug with it (take a photo for a message and then instead of going to the confirmation screen it drops back to the message and you have to take it again).