I think on my lenovo it’s either F2 or Del, you have to switch on the laptop and start spamming one of those two immediately

Get them from where? I always read about these basically-free computers but have yet to see one

Can’t say that I have but for your use case I would like to mention elementaryOS, I tried it a few years back and I found it quite nice and intuitive

Yes, I run Pop_OS on my Lenovo Yoga 6, no complaints whatsoever

The mindset of “if it doesn’t look and behave 100% exactly like Windows, it’s shit and I won’t use it”

Mint, then Ubuntu, then Kubuntu, elementaryOS, Manjaro, then I gave up Linux for a while because I needed remote desktop for my PC at work, now back on PopOS!

I’ve gone from German layout to UK layout to US, I definitely understand the pain of remembering where which symbol is. Apart from that I have to say, with a bit of practice your brain will adapt pretty quickly, there isn’t that much difference between the “standard” layouts anyway

I just don’t like KDE and am not a big fan of stock Gnome either but the PopOS version with COSMIC features plus the Dash to Panel extension make it pretty useable

Cool, thank you!

For remote desktop you could try TeamViewer

Edit: Also, Thunderbird isn’t amazing imho. I would also look at Betterbird. Much better :o)

Mint is a safe bet, I would also suggest you have a look at Pop! OS and CachyOS once you feel a bit more comfortable with Linux and are curious at all. They have a bit more cool stuff to offer that you don’t really get from windows imho

Not sure if I misremember but I think the Mint software manager has a menu option somewhere that shows you a list of Papas you’ve added

You could try CachyOS, arch based and you can run it with KDE. I use Pop!OS and have been super happy with it

Deluge and Surfshark VPN

If it helps, I’m running PopOS on a Ryzen-powered Lenovo laptop (Yoga 6) with integrated graphics. No issues whatsoever, so far

I recently made the switch back to Linux, to Pop! OS, and I’ve never had such a smooth experience before. It’s currently using GNOME as its desktop environment, which I find a bit shit in general, but they’ve modified it enough so that it’s user friendly and intuitive. It has an “app store” as well that you can use to check for and run updates, search software etc. If you have a big screen, the window tiling function is awesome. Highly recommend you have a look at it!

NVIDIA is trash anyway so no reason to buy one regardless of OS

AMD gang!

In all honesty, I think it has gotten better over the last few years and it should be less of a headache now to use NVIDIA cards, I guess that depends on the OS though

I don’t like that their 14" model only comes with intel CPUs

I’m running PopOS (with GNOME+Cosmic) on my Yoga 6, works without any issues so far

Ugh I can’t wait for PopOs to move to Cosmic