Along with that student set prioritize a smaller set with decent pigment and grab a larger tube of Titanium White - you’ll use it fastest. A simple mixing palette of a cool blue, warm red, and cool yellow plus Burnt Sienna and Yellow Ochre will cover most needs and teach you mixing quickly. To fight drying and save paint, make a cheap stay-wet palette from a shallow container with a damp sponge and baking parchment on top.
I honestly rent and bounced between styles for years.. :) A faucet mount on a short tap kept smashing into my sink and the already meh pressure felt worse, so I went with a large pitcher instead. The trick is capacity and cartridge type. Get a tall 10 to 12 cup model with a long life cartridge so you are not refilling constantly and it does not crawl along like the cheap ones. Keep it in the fridge and top it off at night and it feels seamless. Standard pitcher filters tend to be about two months for average use while long life versions can go roughly six months and the taste stays cleaner the whole time.
