The fact you had the initiative to ask this shows you’re probably pretty intelligent. All I’ll add is the perfect life doesn’t exist. Do your best to enjoy it and be kind to people.

This is the best answer I’ve seen. But why aren’t more people recommending Pop Os! Pop Os is by far my favourite as a noob user. I’ve live booted all the popular distros and Pop Os has the nicest interface a everything works so smoothly.

Also Pine64

And then leave it for your housemate to deal with