My advice: Stick to distros and softwares that are widely used. When presented with options, use the defaults.
Just because literally 100% is customizable in the Linux world does not mean you have to customize your system 100%.
That’s my motto since 1996 when I started using Linux.
Yeah, imagine being a parent and your kid is in a foreign land has a medical emergency but you don’t know what it is and whether your kid is going to live or what.
I certainly can imagine myself calling an ambulance. But maybe it’s my “socialist” mind thinking here…