I think on my lenovo it’s either F2 or Del, you have to switch on the laptop and start spamming one of those two immediately

Get them from where? I always read about these basically-free computers but have yet to see one

Can’t say that I have but for your use case I would like to mention elementaryOS, I tried it a few years back and I found it quite nice and intuitive

Yes, I run Pop_OS on my Lenovo Yoga 6, no complaints whatsoever

The mindset of “if it doesn’t look and behave 100% exactly like Windows, it’s shit and I won’t use it”

Mint, then Ubuntu, then Kubuntu, elementaryOS, Manjaro, then I gave up Linux for a while because I needed remote desktop for my PC at work, now back on PopOS!

I’ve gone from German layout to UK layout to US, I definitely understand the pain of remembering where which symbol is. Apart from that I have to say, with a bit of practice your brain will adapt pretty quickly, there isn’t that much difference between the “standard” layouts anyway

For remote desktop you could try TeamViewer

Edit: Also, Thunderbird isn’t amazing imho. I would also look at Betterbird. Much better :o)

Ugh I can’t wait for PopOs to move to Cosmic