Deanne

yes

i used them all, i didn’t notice much difference. but openrc has the coolest bootup screen by far

start with i3wm/sway or openbox. openbox is a floating window manager so it should be more familiar and i3wm is a tiling window manager. personally i use kde nowadays but i always preferred tiling window managers when i chose to use one. it all comes down to your choices so first see if you prefer tiling or floating window managers and then go from there

with this pace of growth i wouldn’t blame them it they got advertises. and i believe that most people here use adblock anyway

Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.