Deanne

there’s also a phyton library that lets you use brave’s adblocker on other browsers like qutebrowser

nope, it’s made from scratch in rust

agree with australis

yes

start with i3wm/sway or openbox. openbox is a floating window manager so it should be more familiar and i3wm is a tiling window manager. personally i use kde nowadays but i always preferred tiling window managers when i chose to use one. it all comes down to your choices so first see if you prefer tiling or floating window managers and then go from there