sorry for being inactive here, I have other things happening at the moment. i'm just gonna put some stuff here

You will mostly stick to defaults (at least initially).

Kinda, I recently started to get interested in modding! It isn't stuff like homebrew (although I was planning to root my phone, until OEM unlock was disabled. Thanks wiko.), I mostly just use something like vencord and Bloxstrap (just tweaks the Roblox client a bit, no exploits tho) This might be not seen as modding, but who cares.

Your 'computer-literacy' is at least (slightly) higher than average.

slightly, I do know how to use HTML to an extent, and can know whats the difference between RAM and hard drives, I still have a long way to go.

Ok here are some of the specs that I can remember (I'm currently not home as of typing this)

I have a HP 2022 Laptop, decent enough to play games

I have a 512 hard drive and 12 GB of RAM

only has 2 USB ports, most of it was replaced by type C, so dual booting with.something USB related might be hard

Dabbled a bit into linux with a VM (a few years ago tho, it was Ubuntu)

and thats all I could remember, I do plan to do an update post after trying out some distros on a VM, hopefully it works!