The difference with Pop OS in particular is that they offer installation ISOs with the proprietary NVIDIA drivers preinstalled, meaning you don’t have to fuss with installing them at all.

OP when they try Debian and it’s exactly what it advertises itself as:

This photo doesn’t even look real lol, Elon looks like he’s photoshopped in

Boy, those… sure are some words. I even recognize most of them!

Am I having a stroke, or is this headline horrendously written?

At last, the Year of the Linux Desktop.

NVIDIA’s Debian repo for Cuda has more up to date GPU drivers, if you don’t wanna manually install from the .run file. Documentation here, its not reflected yet in the docs but there’s a Debian 12 repo.

I’m also on NVIDIA, I tried the Plasma 6 Alpha last night (on KDE neon unstable) and to my utter shock, Wayland was pretty goddamn close to flawless.

Have you ever considered going outside?

The biggest advice I can give is to start with something like, as has been mentioned, Linux Mint, but also, don’t buy into the idea that you eventually need to move to a more “advanced” distro. If Mint, or wherever you wind up, works for you, and you have no compelling reason to switch, then don’t. All Linux is Linux, so to speak, the only things that distinguish distros are packages/package managers, default settings/configurations, and pre-installed programs. There’s nothing preventing you from eventually becoming a power-user on a “noob-friendly” distro, if that’s something you desire in the first place.

Here’s a couple of fairly comprehensive recommendation flow charts I grabbed off Reddit a while back (well before all the recent shit):

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/d7ogclnrbwy.png

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/pyq9cznb394.png

“First” and “Second” test of what? What were you doing during the test? 90.6 of what unit of measurement? Etc.

What, you don’t see why a Twitter-esque app would need access to your Health and Fitness data?

/s