Sorry to point out a mistake but isn’t CacheOS a gaming distro? As I understand the chart, it’s not in that grouping but is right next to it

If you can buy from GOG do it. Need to make sure viable competition sticks around plus they actually let you own the game

These are definitely preferable to using straight Google but some of these use Google/Bing to get search results. I’m not sure of the others but Ecosia use Google/Bing for their results and Startpage uses Google. Quant does seem to use their own index but it seems like it was built partially off bing when they first started off. Again, not sure about the others if they have their own index.

PS: What’s wrong with Brits?

Imo, the fact you know what crontab is indicates your a bit more than a ‘basic’ user. You can give yourself more credit than that ;).

Anyway, like the other commenter said, depends where your switching from but Zorin is pretty much making Linux as easy to use as possible. They even have a wrapper for bottles that makes installing windows apps with wine easier. I quite like it and would be what I’d suggest to someone who wants a general purpose computer. It’s not great for gaming though as they don’t use super up-to-date packages so performance is lacking. That being said, it looks great and makes things as easy as possible for noobies