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Vanilla Debian or LMDE. Caveats are:

1. that you dont intend to seriously game on it, and
2. have at least 8GB RAM (for a smooth GNOME desktop experience).

Use system packages as much as you can and only use Flatpaks if you need the latest and greatest of a certain app (example being the LibreOffice suite for better document compatibility).

Learn how to backup your system with Timeshift and your data with Pika. You’ll have a really wonderful system that you can will serve you well and at the same time be a good base to improve your Linux knowledge.

This is what worked for me when I first started. My workstation still runs Debian many years. Its rock solid and I have no reason to change to anything else.

My only regret its that I didn’t move to Linux sooner. God luck on your journey.

Thanks for that. This confirms my suspicion. I remember individually blocking so many donations when on Win10. Its impossible tip keep up with them all. I had a feeling that many of these domains just keep getting regard with new addresses every few days. Really frustrating.

Will these connections show up in the network logs? If so, then one can at least know if connections ate bring made and try to block it. I’d appreciate it if anyone could explain .

Seems to be working for me (in the EU).