Just try few of these from live usb and pick what you like.
You can use Ventoy and just drag all your ISO images to it but creating few USBs is easiest option for beginners.
There is nothing bad about Debian/Debian based distros and I think that it is great option I started on Mint, tryed Manjaro and get back to Mint.
I use mint and it is great choice, I am not so techy and it just works on this machine.
I have similar machine, but I run Linux, and don’t have these problems. Not exactly configured just some profiles for different use cases.
It was eye-opening how it got faster and snappier after getting rid of windows. Most apps don’t need tinkering, just installing from repo for me.
Don’t take it as exact terminology but I call fermented juice cider if it is carbonated (and really don’t care about fruit except of grapes - then it is sparkling wine or champagne). If it has no carbonation then it is wine.
Czechs have more words for differentiation:
Some cider makers here makes mixes of fruits and still call it cider so it is little mess in terminology. For beer there is lots of specific terms in Czech I really can’t find translation.
It is the update to 0.18 federation is broken sometimes between old and new servers.
It is little bit work in process. I will try to update it and add pictures.
I got from Manjaro after I realised that I don’t need bleeding edge software and I was capable of destroying my installation several times, so Mint with Xfce it is.
Also software that I needed arch for I didn’t need anymore.
Such a cool app I will look it up in my repo (Mint) since it is also Linux. I have been using some ancient excel sheets until now.
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