Luckily linux does 95% of the work for you nowadays! Follow a 15 min tutorial on youtube, and pick Zorin or Mint. No configuring drivers, no setting up grub. Modern distros truly are a Penguin blessing. Want software? Open de software center and click install!

It’s not moving to a different city or country lol. Upload what you need to a cloud and put linux on a usb and install. If this takes you longer than a week… Then idk.

Only those apps that aren’t linux compatible is a pain the ass

If you like the color green pick linux mint. If you like blue pick zorinOS.

If you really want to use arch as noob pick Garuda.

80% of recommendations will be an Ubuntu/debian child so pick whatever looks good and works. See the first two.

If you really don’t like Ubuntu/deb check out Fedora. If you want a big screen steam mode pick bazzite.