[...] I got the order of the thread messed up, haha. You can look at "ungoogled" smartphones that run GrapheneOS or LineageOS. Ubuntu also ships something called "Ubuntu Touch". Anyway, welcome to Linux even if you don't make the jump! The community is mostly great and welcoming :)

[...] One quick note: Steam has support for Windows games. Just go to 'Settings' and check the 'Compatibility' tab. And for smatphones and replacing Google: check 'The Linux Experiment' channel on YouTube, he has a lot of good recommendations for these instances. Ditching Android is tricky, [...]

[...] Steam is a native application as well. You can easily install through the Software Store at the distros listed. It can be installed as '.deb or .rpm' or as Flatpak, which is an 'universal package system' for Linux. I recommend checking Flathub store, there are a lot of good stuff there! [...]

[...] Pop_OS!. From these, I would strongly recommend Mint over Ubuntu, but either would work. Fedora is another good option (the one I'm currently using), but it's based on another packaging system, called .rpm. Every distro will run Civ games (I guess they run native on Linux) [...]

Hey! Nowadays most Linux distributions are 'newcomer' friendly, but I'll name a few and comment quickly about them: Ubunto is the 'go-to' when it comes with compatibility, most software is packaged as a '.deb', which is meant for Debian-based linux distributions, such as Linux Mint, Zorin OS and[..]