This post is for both Windows and Mac users !
I have been running Linux,
Raspberry Pi OS, since several years but almost just the Lite version (without
Desktop).
But when my old MacBook Air "gave up", with Mac OS, it came naturally to
use Ubuntu Desktop since it's also based on the Debian Linux
distribution and the most used Linux distribution.
So it ended up with installing Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS(UOS) or the later 24.10 !