it sounds your installation wasn't completely finished or idk, but your system shouldn't be in this state in the first place - unless you messed with it.
I'll say just go chronologically with the series. You can skip the Original Series if it's too slow or old for your taste, but it's also a really really great series, still my favorite of all of them. (I'm at the last few seasons of Voyager)
Original Series, New Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager etc...
also, you can watch the movies if you want.
and yeah, lots of funny moments in the series as well and I know it's hard to believe 😅
Star Trek is a really nice ride to get on, so I can recommend it to anyone who likes the genre.
before 10, on 8.1 everyone was the same with 10, that it will be the next Vista, by the same logic that XP was OK, Vista was NOK, 7 was OK, 8 was shit, 8.1 was OK...
don't forget, for several years, 10 was unuseable and lots of people - including me was not willing to use it.
for a few years, 11 will be the devil but soonly enough the migration will happen - it has to, if someone needs Windows...
I think you can't go more clean than Chromium. Pretty sure all browsers based on Chromium has some extra features, since those are the only differences in them. Vivaldi, Brave, Maxthon etc..., the same engine in different car, with different extras.
this is why I usually recommend people to use Edge if they really want Chrome, since on Windows, it's already there. But yeah, on Linux, I wouldn't really tell anyone to apt install edge.
I too was planning the switch for a while and I was like my next machine will be a Linux PC from the beginning (in 2-3 months)
but then, few days ago I was like fuck it, then installed Debian and KDE, without any serious preparations.
I like it 😊
Tho, it's not 'final', most of my data partitions aren't mounted the way I'd like and most of my user folders are on an ntfs disk right now, but before the new PC, I can consider it as a test run, then if everything is still nice, then I'll reformat some of my drives for better integration with Linux.
I had a really important role of my Pi 1 B+ for a long time; it was a network storage for my PlayStation 2 to play ISOs from the network with Free McBoot and Open PS2 Loader.
grabbed a big HDD, and old CD drive case and put everything inside. The Pi could be powered from the PS2s USB, hooked up a short network cable and it was ready to go.
Tho I still have that PS2, it's not in use anymore, so neither the Pi.
reminds me (tho it's inverse) old Visual Studio and how it liked to completely fuck up the solution to the point of being unable to fucking build the program.
even Windows has a sticky tooltip bug with the system tray since... well, since the system tray exists that isn't resolved (when it's on either side of the monitor)
it sounds your installation wasn't completely finished or idk, but your system shouldn't be in this state in the first place - unless you messed with it.