I just don’t like KDE and am not a big fan of stock Gnome either but the PopOS version with COSMIC features plus the Dash to Panel extension make it pretty useable

Cool, thank you!

For remote desktop you could try TeamViewer

Edit: Also, Thunderbird isn’t amazing imho. I would also look at Betterbird. Much better :o)

Mint is a safe bet, I would also suggest you have a look at Pop! OS and CachyOS once you feel a bit more comfortable with Linux and are curious at all. They have a bit more cool stuff to offer that you don’t really get from windows imho

Not sure if I misremember but I think the Mint software manager has a menu option somewhere that shows you a list of Papas you’ve added

You could try CachyOS, arch based and you can run it with KDE. I use Pop!OS and have been super happy with it

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