Yeah, just started using W11 for work and it’s insane how often I need to wait for character to buffer in after I typed something.

I shouldn’t be faster than my computer in this day and age, and yet here we are.

Newegg served me well

That one is Canadiab Multilingual Standard. Canadian French is different. Both are in common use though.

Canadian French for programming is great. You have everything you need right there. The only downside is no euro symbol. CMS is something else. It has potential but I find the keybinds less intuitive.

Buy one. It’s like 100$ and you’ll have a backup solution.

I do the same but Egyptian

I use Egyptian gods!

Mint has a bunch of tweaks to make it more approachable. Apt assumes Sudo, typing passwords shows stars, little things that usually trip new users.

You already have great answers, so I’ll just drop my recommendations. LMDE if you want something more stable, and Endeavour OS if you want to go a bit more in the weeds with a rolling release.

In the end, don’t be afraid to try some for a few weeks and find one you like. One of the strength of Linux is that if you mess up, you can always reinstall,and it’s not scary since you did it once already.

Just use LMDE.

I use the same one! It’s really great. I spent an hour going though the options untill I was satisfied.

If you go in the add-ons you can download themes that completely change the UI. They can also be heavily customized. Useless menus can just be removed.

Love LSD. I always install it first with btop and zoxide

You have to confirm any command before it runs, so no more dangerous than baseline rm

Start setting one up.

I’ve been running Manjaro for about a decade and never had issues. Not saying they don’t exist but I feel like the concerns are overblown.

I landed on oh-my-bash, zoxide and some other utilities. It really improved my terminal experience.

That sounds great but I don’t want to keep the ‘rm’ muscle memory in case I’m on another computer and delete something important. Having to use ‘trash’ instead makes you more conscious when it errors out.

Alias rm to echo and install trash. Saved me many times.

Yeah at this point I’ve aliased ‘rm’ to nothing and exclusively use ‘trash’.