I use a tablet for gaming, Linux for almost everything and a windows vm for de-DRM'ing books I boiught so I can read them the way I want. Windows vm is just for when I have no other option.

For me worked:

• Install Debian
• be confused by all the options in the installation process, look up every unknown word, try to do everything manualy, fail
• start installation process again, choose all the defaults, works!
• trying to install a programm with terminal, fail because not in sudo list, look up how to get into sudo list
• update in terminal doesn't work, have to remove some lines in /etc/apt/sources.list - look up how to use the text editor nano, look many yt-videos about Linux filesystem (what to those folders mean? Everything is a file?)
• try to resize a partition (can't remember which), can't, because I didn't choose LVM in installation process - install Debian again, and do all the steps above again

I think I had to reinstall Debian 5 more times after that, just because I didn't know what I was doing and it was an easy reset for me.

Very frustraiting at times, and a very rewarding feeling when something worked. Made me love tech again, 10/10 would do again.

Try installing something like Linux Mint that is Ubuntu or Debian based which has a lot of beginner documentation. You don't really need much resources after that, you will probably learn while using it and searching for how to do things. Also if you play games, check if the games you play work in Linux via ProtonDB.

I've heard a lot of talk in the linux community about linux mint being a good beginner distro.

As someone who recently did a switch to get used to Linux, if you're planning on gaming then Nobara is supposedly the beginner friendly gaming distro. I switched to Nobara and my only issue was screen flickering that I fixed by switching from Wayland to X11 (that was as simple a choosing the other option on the login screen). Everything else just works and KDE looks similar to the windows layout so it doesn't feel too unintuitive either.

My two gripes that I can't do anything about are the lack of HDR support (supposedly that's finally in the works) and no Linux support for some online games (The Finals in my case, but maybe if Linux numbers go up they'll finally flip the switch), neither could be solved by having a different distro.

If you just want to game and want it up and running without tinkering too much I recommend Nobara.

Raspberry pi os was built for education, it's a fork of debain and can run on computers that aren't raspberry pis. They also have a digital bookshelf with many ebooks that can also be downloaded without the OS as they've been released as creative commons.

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