I fear not so. Maybe for easy stuff. But when it comes to actual troubleshooting, Lemmy is severely limited by its tiny user base.

(There's only about 40k monthly active users on Lemmy, and that number includes bot accounts. For comparison, that's fewer active users than the Crackberry forum or the LTT forum. Reddit has over a billion of daily active users, so around 25 000x as many as Lemmy.)

Chances are there's nobody on Lemmy who uses the same hardware, the same distribution and the same DE as me, so if I need help debugging an issue that's specific to my combination, I'm out of luck.

Even on Reddit the same is true for many issues. While there might be someone with my exact combination who might even know the answer, that person first has to stumble across my post among the millions of posts that are created every hour on Reddit.

So chances are if you ask a deeper question than "How do I copy files" you will not get an answer. Instead you likely will just get snark and "RTFM noob!"

In fact, even though I have been using Linux for well over a decade now, I ran across a problem I couldn't debug: Games would run fine on my 4070 today, but they'd randomly slow to a crawl (multiple seconds per frame) the next day. I'm a Linux software developer, so I know how to go about this. Reboots and all the usual stuff didn't help. Logs didn't show anything relevant. Google didn't help either. I asked on Stackexchange, but the question was closed as duplicate to an entirely unrelated question. By the time I got it reopened, it was so far down the queue that it didn't get any answers. Asking on Reddit just got me "Lol, noob, RTFM, works on my machine"-type of answers.

So I bit the bullet after about a year of getting nowhere and asked AI, and the first answer got me to the right track.

Turns out, flatpak keeps its own copy of the Nvidia driver. This version needs to be identical to the system driver version. If it's not, the GPU isn't used at all and instead it falls back to software rendering. So if I do dnf update and it updates the GPU driver, it breaks the performance. Running flatpak update && reboot fixes it again. So any time I ran dnf update without flatpak update && reboot after it, it would break the performance. And I often ran flatpak update first.

AI reall can help debugging weird issues.

I did bazzite for an lot of friends that are not so good at linux and they did really well.

Depends. You have to ask yourself:

Do you prefer stability (fixed release distro) or having cutting-edge software (rolling release distro)?

Do you prefer customizable or idiot proof?

Do you have an Nvidia card? Nvidia is notorious for shitty drivers and anti linux agenda but you have to download their drivers if you are into gaming. Some disros have them by default. You can install them manually on others but I had some issues on fedora, for example.

Are you okay with using an os made by a for-profit corporation? Ubuntu, for example, is maintained by Canonical, a rather controversial company.

You want something rather easy, so barebones disros like arch are no-go.

If you're specifically looking for gaming then there are two gaming-focused distros to look at: Bazzite and CachyOS. Former is based on Fedora and latter on Arch, if that makes any difference to you. I've heard good things about both.

Do note that Linux doesn't support kernel-level anti cheat of any kind, so if you want to play any multiplayer games that require this you categorically cannot use Linux, unfortunately.

Probably Fedora, basically modern recommend over Ubuntu and used by Linus himself for being user friendly.

Bazzite is good if you don't want to mess with traditional linux at all and want something more akin to Android (much harder to screw up).

Mint is great for everything except maybe gaming because their modules aren't always up to date which can lead to performance issues.

I also think KDE is the better DE to choose, but that's up to your own preference.