I think it takes a bit of experimentation and what you think fits your style. Personally, I avoid ones that are overly sweet or smell to chemically.

My wife loves when I wear a cologne from Barrister & Mann, and it’s arguably my favorite as well. (Maggard Razors sells small samples if you want to try.

It’s a silly name for sure.

Whatever you pick, first test it by running it from a USB drive first.

I’m experimenting with Pop!_OS on my aging laptop running it on a USB drive. Was happy to see it supports 2-in-1 functionality.

There’s machines that can’t upgrade to Win11. That’s the issue OP is talking about.

There’s a high amount of friction to get people to join the Fediverse. I had to put in more effort than I’d like to figure out how things worked.

My biggest worry was picking the wrong Mastodon instance and then having no easy way to migrate my stuff to another server. Even after you pick your instance, there’s so much setup for things that you kinda just expect to work.