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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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There's a lot of good suggestions here.
As someone who uses Linux but doesn't love it, be prepared to restart from scratch a lot. Keep the OS on a blank drive and just point the OS to your storage drives once it's up and running.
Otherwise you are going to be losing data every time you break something in the OS, and that is really no fun.