Hey, I currently live in Germany, so we are pretty much neighbours.
I also started with Ubuntu, in my opinion there is not that much difference between the different linux distributions as everybody says.
I don't know python (I can read it, though), but I have only heard good things about it. It seems to be available everywhere, it is well tested and not too slow. If you already know programming python is easy to pick up, I guess.
Nice to see somebody transit from W10 to a Unix.

So: welcome!