Just do it now, you won’t regret it, or install mint in a virtual machine and full screen it and get use to it, you’ll find yourself using windows less and less every day. My personal go to is Kubuntu, because I like the customization capabilities and lower memory footprint than Gnome. I hate tiling windows managers, so don’t recommend those please.

no bro just go into terminal and type out this arcane command with 20 options fr fr . easy! (and I use linux on the regular lol)

They have lots of money and engineers I’m sure it will be fine

WhatsApp and telegram are currently the best options for most people. I prefer signal but people just won’t use it because they haven’t heard of it