Yes, the tech community here is still small but growing.
Please do.

Thankfully blocking is a useful feature of blue sky.

Agreed, only in a state of being open minded have I ever learned anything.

Bigotry and religion go hand in hand.
Thankfully, it doesnt look like it is likely to reverse the multiple decades of decline in organized religion.

I genuinely encourage you to try ubuntu as a starting point if this is how you feel. The entire process of setup and usage is easy and requires no terminal.
The biggest problem right now is that most search results will point new users towards copy pasting terminal commands when its not necessary.

Get familiar with Ubuntu, its a fine enough distro.
Ubuntu has done great work getting the initial onboarding to be alot easier.
Distro hopping and the discourse around different flavors of linux is pretty overblown and quickly devolves into holy war nonsense.