Mint was my first distro. My interest begun with LibreOffice, then W10 got unusable for me and rest is history.

I distrohopped a year ago but returned to Mint

Just try few of these from live usb and pick what you like.

You can use Ventoy and just drag all your ISO images to it but creating few USBs is easiest option for beginners.

There is nothing bad about Debian/Debian based distros and I think that it is great option I started on Mint, tryed Manjaro and get back to Mint.

Czech maps from Seznam, I talked with marketing boss (don’t know his exact position but it is high) and he told me that they don’t make money from it.

If any one is interested mapy.cz it is must have app for travel in Czech.

Can I volunteer my matches. You know patch for comment section.

It has lot of customisation - I use simple UI (it hides history and you can add widgets) and swiping shortcuts.

I use KISS but it is little bit learning curve.