Linux

Lets get this out of the way. Linux is not for everyone and you will need to choose your flavor wisely.

I moved to linux about 5 years ago and honestly never looked back. I've hated the direction that both Microsoft and Apple have gone with privacy and transparency both collect your data and send it off to be sold. Both are integrating AI along with apps into the platform that cant be removed or disabled. I went ahead and made the plunge a few years ago. The only windows system I use at this point is for work since it's required.

Right now my OS of choice is cachyos. super-fast light weight. It's worked for everything I've thrown at it but i can also recommend fedora, or ubuntu both have been solid.

Is there really a difference in Linux flavors? Not really other than the setup once it's installed it's almost the exact same except for what package manager is used to install apps. ubutnu is apt, cache os pacman, fedora yum but you can literally install whatever package manager on any distro and it usually will work.