I’m literally deciding which distro to install as a first timer. It’s my understanding that Mint is the best for beginners migrating from M$ but knowing nothing about why this is the case one thing nags me:
Why do people switch distro’s? What isn’t in Mint that you get elsewhere? I really don’t want to waste time using Mint if I’m just going to have to reinstall something else because it turns out it is bad for gaming or doesn’t support many devices or something.
Lots of long-winded answers here. I started with Ubuntu almost 20 years ago. I bounced through a bunch of distros and stuck with Xubuntu until I switched to Mint 10 years ago. I only moved to Fedora this year because I wanted to play games with my new video card and didn’t want to wait the couple of months for the newest kernel.
Just pick one and roll with it for a while. You will eventually decide what you like and need and either modify it to your needs or move to a different distro.