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Lots of suggestions for Mint so it seems that's a good choice for me! Thank you!

Thanks! Why specifically an NVIDIA card?

Oh that's a shame.

Okay thank you for clarifying!

That's a great response! Thank you, that helps a lot.

Okay great! I'll give those each a try. Thank you!

Okay thank you! Could you give some examples about tasks that "should be easy" but aren't? I've worked with MacOS casually and I thought it was based on Unix (maybe?), so I was at least aware that the way to maneuver through the desktop/settings/file searches are different from Windows of course. I am certainly not a power user, just getting frustrated with companies overstepping more and more and want to cut myself from their whims, if that makes sense.

Okay that's good to know! Stick with one to get more comfortable until it doesn't do something I need, basically?

I'm not wanting to dive into programming specifically (only dipped my toes in the past for school/work as needed but certainly not experienced) so I'm not interested in maintaining scripts and a GitHub if that is necessary for Arch or what you mentioned as "serious" distros. That's good information though, thank you!

Okay that's good to know. What made you choose kubuntu specifically?

Oh, why would the Rift not work? Just no compatibility? I've used it with some Steam games which I thought I understood to work fine in Linux.

I'm hoping to keep it on desktop (not allowed to edit my work laptop), so hopefully that won't be an issue but will keep it in mind for power usage. Thank you!