I recently switched to Ubuntu Cinnamon. I like it a lot, but I've had some headaches making some things work. It's worth it me, as I will never return to Windows. I relied heavily on chatgpt to get me through tweaking it. Any errors I would receive in the bash terminal, I would paste into chatgpt and it would give me step by step instructions on what to do. I would have thrown the laptop in a pond without that, though. The technical barrier to entry isn't too high, so long as you exercise a little patience.