I'd honestly be very cautious with anything google. Aegis would probably be a better option.

Fedora will always be my go-to, and the KDE spin should be pretty familiar layout wise for former windows users.

Since you have an nvidia gpu, Pop OS will probably be your best bet if you need it working immediately.

I wouldn't recommend Ubuntu anymore, as it's been pushing snaps (package manager) MS-style, and it's gotten some shit from the community for various reasons over the years.

Linux Mint is also good, too. It's very easy to just get up and going, perfect for people who aren't familiar with Linux, too.

The only true candidate for president.

Straight orgasm to sleep sounds like a really shitty superpower.

It might be even hotter than that

Debian! It sounds perfect for your use cases and requirements.

I haven't noticed any outages recently. I'm pretty sure the situation has gotten better at this point.

We'll die on this hill together.

free software or bust

I think you can enable history and it'll work then, but I don't do that so I can't say exactly.

I'm not that old! I'm still a linux user and tech enthusiast though, so you're not that off.

Not really, CentOS Stream tracks ahead of RHEL and isn't bug for bug compatible, which is also something that Rocky and Alma wants and needs to be.