Kali themselves say that you should not pick it for this:
> it is NOT a recommended distribution if you’re unfamiliar with Linux or are looking for a general-purpose Linux desktop distribution for development, web design, gaming, etc.
Other than that, counter question: How much time did you spend to decide between windows home, pro, enterprise, ltsc, ...? Probably none, because for your use case it does not matter. Same for linux distros. For your use case any of them will work just fine and feel pretty indistinguishable.
- Fedora has to obey more laws than ubuntu (canonical headquarters are on some British island). As a consequence you probably want to add rpm fusion for some more video codecs etc.
- Ubuntu is probably a fine choice. Releases are named year.month, e.g. 22.04. The evenyear.04 releases are supported for a long time and can directly upgrade to evenyear+2.04. For all other releases you are supposed to upgrade every 6 months. Upgrades are usually completely unproblematic and quick.
- On any phone you install software by opening your app store and picking what you want. Same for linux. Sideloading stuff from (random) websites like on windows is possible, but try not to. Similarly, if a website tells you to compile stuff just ignore that (unless you also commonly compile software on windows?).
Kali themselves say that you should not pick it for this:
> it is NOT a recommended distribution if you’re unfamiliar with Linux or are looking for a general-purpose Linux desktop distribution for development, web design, gaming, etc.
https://www.kali.org/docs/introduction/should-i-use-kali-lin...
Other than that, counter question: How much time did you spend to decide between windows home, pro, enterprise, ltsc, ...? Probably none, because for your use case it does not matter. Same for linux distros. For your use case any of them will work just fine and feel pretty indistinguishable.
Some comments:
- If you pick debian the default installer does not support some hardware (e.g. most wifi) on purpose for freedom reasons. Use the installer with support instead https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images...
- Fedora has to obey more laws than ubuntu (canonical headquarters are on some British island). As a consequence you probably want to add rpm fusion for some more video codecs etc.
- Ubuntu is probably a fine choice. Releases are named year.month, e.g. 22.04. The evenyear.04 releases are supported for a long time and can directly upgrade to evenyear+2.04. For all other releases you are supposed to upgrade every 6 months. Upgrades are usually completely unproblematic and quick.
- On any phone you install software by opening your app store and picking what you want. Same for linux. Sideloading stuff from (random) websites like on windows is possible, but try not to. Similarly, if a website tells you to compile stuff just ignore that (unless you also commonly compile software on windows?).