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[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah, I get that. But you'll have to do that anyway and when the time comes, getting Linux will be there for you.
Regarding distros, it really doesn't matter at the beginning, hoping from distro to distro if you need it later is dead easy, most of the time it's as easy as running one command to install all the apps, and copying your /home/ dir, it will transfer wast majority of all your settings, if not all. Some apps are stubborn but those are outliers.
So the choice of a distro basically comes to a single thing you care about. Like, for example, some are "rolling release", which means they try to have all the libs and apps and other shit up to date, some are "stable", which means they don't update that often. Both have their ups and downs, personally I find rolling releases easier to deal with.
The biggest difference for a novice is what desktop environment is the default one, and that's basically a matter of preference (but actually KDE is the best of them, and that's my objective opinion).