Auster

Also regarding Nvidia, I don’t have great experience with it, but Mint Cinnamon and Mint Xfce work rather well with the RTX board my laptop has, just having to add a control tool to change from the default Intel one.

And dunno how it is nowadays, but there’s a third version of Mint, LMDE, that when I tested, was very problematic to get the Nvidia board to work. Though that was over a year ago so maybe they fixed it since.

Linux Mint is generally the best “it just works” case, focused on stability (to the detriment of speed of updates), ease of use and visually reminding of Windows.

Also Mint comes with a few official visual* changes, but if I might suggest, go with Xfce, not the Cinnamon one. The Cinnamon version of Mint has too many animations that only add micro workflow delays, while Xfce doesn’t have all the fancy effects making it faster to use.

*avoiding technical jargons to not confuse the OP

If yours feel like a stable/balanced setup, maybe find another project? From my experience, without majorly reconfiguring the machine, virtual machines, RSS and making your own programs can be rather time-consuming, though also carrying a challenge you may be lacking as is now.

If people don’t trust it either, there’s also an alternative, reading the package for the expected spoiling date.

You probably can’t trust anything if it’s compromised

There’s that legal jargon that comes to mind, fishing expedition