I definitely recommend a beginner friendly distro to start with, but also encourage going through a Gentoo install at least once to get a better understanding of how the system works
Whether you succeed or fail at getting the install to boot and run or not, you'll learn something from the experience
They literally cut promised support pulling the rug out from under many people and businesses that put their trust in that support. Not sure how that doesn't count as "day to day software support". Being able to trust that their word will be honored and I'll not be forced to scramble to replace their os is kind of important and losing that trust understandably costs that trust pretty much across the board, at least for me
I don't feel very supported by their killing off CentOS and cutting promised support down from many years to the end of the year rather suddenly... Forgive me if I don't trust them with much of anything after that
Also, even when you actually get an error message (which you probably had to dig through the awful mess that is the event viewer... Seriously, the only update they've made to it in the last twenty years was to split a bunch of things into a ton of individual logs that are more than painful to dig through), it's cryptic (if it tells you anything at all) and pasting it into search gives you nothing relevant, and quoting it gives you nothing at all (even the part that's obviously the generic part of the error), or if it does, it's a couple hits with people asking for help and either getting no replies, unhelpful replies that misunderstand the issue, or tells them they're asking in the wrong Microsoft support forum
Like... Come on, Microsoft. You clearly coded this error in the operating system. Put at least one page in documents online with at least something useful about it...
I remember really liking Encounter at Farpoint when i was a kid
Rewatching it more recently, I realized Diana's "PAIN! I FELL PAIN!" was her sensing the audience's reaction to the horrible episode
Like... It had a single episode worth of good episode in there but they left the other half in that should have hit the editing room floor
ETA: I had to look up what season 5 episode 2 is, and yes, that's an excellent representation
I'd argue that the second pilot of the original series, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is also a excellent overall introduction to Star Trek: cerebral rather than action oriented, the focus on the people and their relationships both with each other and their own humanity, asking questions of the audience to make us think, solid message ("absolute power corrupts absolutely")...
But definitely skip the original pilot, The Cage, in its standalone form. Watching that, we were damned lucky it didn't get shitcanned fully right then and there
I don't recommend it, the more boots you use the heavier your computer will be. I've got mine down to half a boot and I'm working on getting it down to a quarter.