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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Mint is for sure a good place to start. I personally run EndeavourOS with Cinnamon desktop and it's been more trouble-free than anything Ubuntu based I've used (shocking, I know).
Mint and PopOS! are the ones I've heard thrown about for "Users First Distro" ever since Canonical decided to do... whatever the fuck it is they're doing to Ubuntu proper.
I'm using Mint now, and have exactly one complaint: I don't like the default Cinnamon Firefox icon so I changed it, but every time there's an update to Firefox it changes back. All things considered, that's nothing to worry about.
Can't go wrong with mint, I've been using it for years.