I tend to keep my laptops on mint or ubuntu. PC's you use as a daily driver, should be easy to manage. When you boot, they just work.
Build a homelab, if you want to break stuff.
A homelab can be as small, as a vm in virtualbox. No need for extra hardware when starting off...
Had this surgery done this march for two teeth... 2 weeks on painkillers. Here in Denmark all I got was store bought painkillers... ibuprofen and paracetamol.. and a bill for 8600DKK ~1000$
0/10 - will not recommend