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Definitely try it. I started Linux with Mint since it's the closest to Windows I could find. Later on I wanted to try bleeding edge but vanilla Arch was too complicated for a noob like me. Until I found EOS. The transition was smooth and painless. I learned more about Linux in a few months with EOS than years on Mint, but that's a me problem. Now I have vanilla Arch on my VM and EOS on my laptop bare metal. It's pretty stable, and that one-time Grub issue was the only hiccup I ever experienced that was not due to my stupidity. Lol.
Now I want to try Gentoo, but man it's even more complicated.
Thanks for the encouragement! I've been reading up and thinking about making it my project for the weekend. The question still lingers, do I need sexy Linux, when regular boring functional Linux does everything I need it to very smoothly? I game browse the web on it. I don't code or make content, and my day job keeps me so busy that I want my shit to just work when I feel like booting up a game my steamdeck or switch can't handle. Is the feeling of running it successfully worth it?