@philip_cardella I'm a noob myself, but FWIW I think of a 'distro' as a curated, combination of software components, bundled together and (hopefully) supported by a particular group or company. Seems like the biggest forks in the curation road are desktop environments, which is what draws windows, menus etc. and package managers, which controls how you install software.
For my part, I set up a dual-boot between win10 and ubuntu. I'm in ubuntu like 95% of the time...