A simple suggestion for the overwhelmed newbie

[Demanding Truth]

Nice informative thread for the newbie.. These members are most definitely the honest caring honorable Linux experts, the masters...

I've tried all the Linux OS's.. I believe the best Linux for a beginner to start with is 'Linux Mint Mate 22.3.. It's fully customizable, clean, quiet, and doesn't fight the user in any way like most OS's do.. It installs in 20-minutes, and can be fully customized in about an hour.. If you know windows you know how to operate this OS, and it's three times more customizable than windows, and it doesn't insult you with goofy petty advertising, insane redirects, engineered exploit holes, spyware, forced updates and upgrades, that gosh awful start up noise, dancing cartoon dogs...

I strongly suggest the novice install this OS, and dig into it after reboot, left and right clicking on everything and anything, changing literally everything in the OS, making all the messes and mistakes, making a big huge mess in a fevered uncontrolled careless rush, not caring in the slightest that you are meticulously destroying the OS.. Have your curious experimental fun, then take a break from the computer.. Then return, reinstall it, and make all the right choices... Dump firefox.. Install Librewolf.. It is absolutely crucial you install the OS encrypting both the installation and home file folder.. Find the first encryption in the forth question check boxes in install.. Click the two encrypt boxes..
Today's internet organized crime war is powerful... Get used to using two passwords till the insane wars are over...
Look what china just did, they broke into America's government internet, and American's internet providers, and America's computers... And russia tried to cut internet sea cables..
To see what we are up against read in reddit about the seriously corrupt chinese Opera browser... Look at the new Firefox, all the user friendly options and security has been removed from it.. Don't use the new Firefox, or you will so be sorry, use Librewolf.. Now days there is no such thing as a secure OS, nor a safe internet.. It's all crime and war now... I can't stress enough the importance of establishing a secondary computer or a removable switchable extra hard drive that can't net-connect to store all your private precious lifetime computer data... One little bit of arabic evil on the Web could destroy everything you've saved..The global asylum kooks have just begun to attack the internet and the world's computers.. Millions will lose all of their computer data before the arabs insane war is over, plus we still have the kooks nukes to happen on some of our cities.. People will be turned into sticky stinky black stains on the bricks and cement.. That won't be fun...

I can't find another ISO download site I would trust these days.. I'm getting warning popups from Librewolf when I click on those download websites in that web search page.. Seems microstuf acquired Linux Mint, and is killing it with corruption, evil, and war... Register in any Linux Mint forum, and badmouth widows even the slightest, and into the thread comes the seven microstuf policy enforcer 'corporate police' to start a flame war with you with their overly edited colorful copied pasted flame war battle-posts... I

I've stopped playing gagagoogoo social on the Web... I use it for this forum, for ProtonMail, for the weather, for YouTube Ukraine war updates, for war strategy messages to a few friendly governments, and for occasional google searches, that's it.. No more 'quack', 'chirp', comments, nor 'blabber'... I reinstall this OS in this valueless 80-cent disposable netbook every two to three weeks to be sure it's clean of demon-poo... Do so dump Thunderbird and LibreOffice. they are big exploit holes for hackers...