I can’t really tell you what will work for you, but I took a similar starting path…
When I finally took linux seriously as my Primary OS a few years ago, I too picked LMDE, and generally thought it was good. I eventually moved on because I wanted access to newer stuff like Nvidia drivers.
My next distro was Fedora KDE Edition, and.tjis would be my generic recommendation for anyone coming from Windows. Rolling updates isn’t scary, actually it means you don’t have a terrifying big upgrade looming on the horizon.
About a year ago I started hand-crafting my own Hyprland on Arch setup. It’s great. Bleeding edge stuff, and contrary to the memes it’s actually been the easiest to maintain - possibly because I only have the packages I need. BUT I wouldn’t recommend this for someone without a software engineering background.
I also dabbled withe EndeavourOS which deserves a shout.
I can’t really tell you what will work for you, but I took a similar starting path…
When I finally took linux seriously as my Primary OS a few years ago, I too picked LMDE, and generally thought it was good. I eventually moved on because I wanted access to newer stuff like Nvidia drivers.
My next distro was Fedora KDE Edition, and.tjis would be my generic recommendation for anyone coming from Windows. Rolling updates isn’t scary, actually it means you don’t have a terrifying big upgrade looming on the horizon.
About a year ago I started hand-crafting my own Hyprland on Arch setup. It’s great. Bleeding edge stuff, and contrary to the memes it’s actually been the easiest to maintain - possibly because I only have the packages I need. BUT I wouldn’t recommend this for someone without a software engineering background.
I also dabbled withe EndeavourOS which deserves a shout.