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It is not one operating system. Linux stands for just the kernel. Everything else on top of it are different flavours, and can be widely different.
If you are a noob, you can try sticking to debian/ubuntu umbrella (e.g. Mint) and go deep into learning bash. I tried arch for sometime but realised I don't have the patience to fight the system. As a developer, I have to write real codes that work and hence I am into Ubuntu based distros.
Don't get into the distro hopping or endless gui customisation, those are not productive. Learn GNU LibC, C. C++, Rust and that will make you feel like God with your Linux box.
And yes. If you are also into Bitcoin (since you are in SN), why not try to run your own knots node from the command line, connect sparrow wallet to your knots and use that to broadcast your transaction?
The original way to use Bitcoin.
I been using Pop_OS which I like a lot. If I had time I would dive into other distros because somethings just don’t work that well on Pop_OS.
I have heard a lot of good words about pop, but have not used it personally. But yeah, I would totally accept it if I was buying a system 76 box.
Mint, feren os, kde neon all pretty slick and nice too. None hurts. And it does not even matter much. Focus below the gui/visual layer to understand the system, and the terminal is the way to talk to the system.
If you know the terminal, you can also use headless instances via ssh from a cloud service provider.
Yeah that’s what I got. A really nice system 76.
For a while I was watching a lot of YouTube videos getting very comfortable with terminal but this past year I stopped and lost all my skills
Learn linux tv was my favourite YouTube channel, although now a days i mostly read documentations.
You need some degree of hunger, patience and self discipline to go through. Also, having basic knowledge of computer systems (like a computer architecture 101 course), knowing what memory, processor, drives do and ability to read/write some code help.
It's such a crazy operating system because you can have the most beautiful out-of-the-box desktop computer with Linux Mint, but then have to build your computer from the ground up with Arch Linux.
(Full disclosure, those are the only two distros I've deep dived)