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I think you are just better off using Cygwin and installing the GCC and MinGW GCC compilers for programming.

To explain what I said in the previous post:
Red Hat is a company that sells Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
They also own Fedora and CentOS, but these should not be used because Red Hat uses Fedora for development and CentOS for beta testing so you will always run into problems.

Oracle Linux is just Red Hat Linux, but for free.
Oracle only charges money if you want support which is typically only need by big businesses.

GNOME is a desktop environment that tries to act like macOS's desktop. Officially supported by Red Hat (and thus Oracle), but it is very painful to use with how bare boned it is.

KDE is a desktop environment that tries to act like Window's desktop. Not officially supported by Red Hat or Oracle, but is more tolerable to use.

Flatpak is a system that tries to make Linux programs run on every distribution possible since this task has always been impossible most of the time.
So you won't be able to install Steam or Mumble if your distribution doesn't include it, but with Flatpak you can install Steam or Mumble.

So to summarize, anything dealing with Linux is going to be a pain. Just focus on using the actual tools you need or else you'll waste time working on your operating system.