Oh yeah, I was on the ps4 for ages, and whenever I'd look at the switch through the years I'd always lose interest when I saw the games were still the price of half my rent 4 years in x3
Efficiency :3.. if you need to edit text in terminal a lot, getting good with vi/vim can save a decent chunk of time, due to all the keyboard shortcuts it has
And then other people do it cause the pros do and it's perceived as cool
Im personally on pop!_os, though im not sure how much I'd recommend it at the moment as they're building up to launching their new DE, which probably isn't gonna be the most stable
Mint is a good "default" newbie distro :3 zorinOS is another one I see mentioned a lot these days though I've not personally tried it
Funny thing is.. I was gonna get my PC with an AMD card, but because the one I wanted was out of stock I got upgraded (depending on how you want to look at it) to an nvidia one :3
I may go AMD next time I swap it, but as I've not had any problems as of yet, im not in a major rush