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I don't know what this 'gallium' is. But your computer has a powerful x86 cpu, so any regular distro will work just fine.
Becuse it is your first distro, it should be something well documented (large user base) and stable.
I recommend you to format your biggest usb stick with Ventoy2Disk and it'll be the last time you'll ever format.
With Ventoy you can try any distro in Live mode without installing anything in your computer before you're found your favorite.
Try at least Pop_OS! and LMDE5 (LMDE6 is released within a few weeks) over regular Mint and here's why: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=374128
Is the user experience the same with LMDE as with regular Mint?
It boots faster and is slightly more responsive as the link suggests. Neofetch has different logo.
It doesn't have the driver manager so LMDE doesn't play well with Nvidia gpus.
I see, I'll try those. Debian flavour mint gets multiple reccs, hm. I knew about mint being newbie friendly. Didn't know it has diff flavours.
"Regular" Mint = Ubuntu backend (Nvidia support) Mint Debian = More lightweight, but only Cinnamon and bad option for Nvidia gpu
curious if ubuntus slowness is related to the graphics. hm. i found someone running csp on mint cinnamon using playoblinux. so thheres some more points to mint, haha.
I have no clue. I bet Ubuntu just ships with more processes running. Stsrting from booy and continuing during the use.