I always recommend Pop_OS! for beginners. It’s IMHO a lot closer to what Ubuntu used to be, uses apt and/or flatpaks (and no snaps), has sane defaults, a good installer, a decent company behind it, nvidia drivers included and their upcoming Cosmic desktop environment looks sick.

Also, I feel like this is a better Fedora-based distro for beginners since it’s harder to break:

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/

He’s a Goder. Like a Witcher but for the heavens.

I agree this is a discussion worth having. You shouldn’t have been downvoted just because you’re proposing we talk about a thing without advocating for it (necessarily). It’s also okay to play devil’s advocate with the discussion, as I think you’re doing here.

The issue I have with a kernel level anti-cheat is that even with those anti-cheat measures, cheating is still happening. Why then allow such invasive software on my machine? It’s a major reason why I don’t like to play multiplayer online with strangers (though my strong introversion actually explains that preference better).

But just because that’s my preference doesn’t mean I think that the option shouldn’t exist. I just don’t want it forced upon me. FOSS should be about choice. If I want those choices taken away, there is always Windows.

Home theater PC

Whatever you decide, make sure you’ve got a backup of any important data before you start making any partition changes. Things go wrong occasionally even when they shouldn’t.

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I haven’t actually benchmarked this, but I believe Dead Cells is pretty battery life friendly.

Exactly. A backup isn’t safe until it’s tested.

I’ve been avoiding btrfs for reasons like that.

I always get a Clonezilla image made before I do any major changes, which I find takes the anxiety out of situations like this.

Well it’s high time Wendy’s switched to a Linux distro!

If only Valve had some sort of store where you could buy the Steam Deck and some new games to go with it!

If XFCE feels too heavy (it probably won’t), you can try LXDE. I think XFCE is a good place to start though.

I worked help desk 20+ years ago, and it wasn’t different then.

I think what we’re seeing is simply more people who would have avoided tech now being forced to use it - badly, I might add.

To me, the seasons that have an overarching plot work better than the early episodes that were each self-contained

I think the later seasons are better than the early ones.

3D modeling in Blender or maybe CAD of some sort.