I generally don’t run tor only - but just connecting to a different WiFi and it will be fine. From memory start9 will have some tor connections and some regular ones in the mix.

If you want to run tor only and travel discreetly then Tails is pretty cool as it runs off a usb stick then and you just plug it into any old laptop to boot it up but that’s mostly for fun not required as a first step.

Lopp has some decent recommendations on home

VPN options on one of his blogs. That’s mostly what I use but it limited my ability to get inbound connections to my node. FWIW clearnet syncs way faster and still way more private than using a third party node.