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try not to get yourself in decision paralysis, if you mess something up it'll be pretty easy to redo it anyway because you've learnt it already
Unless you are actually using your PC. Setting up everything involves much more than just installing the OS. If I want to get all my apps working and my data transferred to where it needs to go, and all my peripherals and stuff running, it takes me a day or two.
That's why I'm still stuck on a distro with more issues than things going for it.