I’ll just use invidious, it’s a bit of a chore to use, but it’s increasingly worth it.

Adding government ID to their data would hardly be anymore of a privacy invasion

Are you listening to yourself?

I would argue that it’s either a 4-6 way tie, or Meta is the worst, but MS is certainly terrible.

I moved away from Windows as much as I can and now I maintain a dualboot just for Photoshop and Lightroom. I think compared to average people I’m doing quite well conviction wise.

I also use Gimp as much as I can. Unfortunately for processing hundreds of photos Rawrherapee + Gimp is not a viable option for me. There are problems both with quality and speed. (Gimp is the problem for speed and RT or DT for the lack of quality due to weak highlight reconstruction)

This is a silly take. Who would sacrifice half -or more- their work efficiency to make a point?

Labwc is quite possibly the most stable and sane Wayland WM there is today, but op wanted a tiler. (Sway does crash every once in a while, Labwc doesn’t and the devs are more open minded about features)

Yeah that’s exactly one of the niche use cases, like using a midi keyboard, though using a low latency kernel like Linux Zen would be more than enough for most users.

I don’t understand why would you want to use Arch for dev work and popos for gaming. Arch is not stable and will cause some issues every now and then and PopOS is worse for gaming, but is far more reliable on a production machine.

KDE devs have taken steps to make more Gnome-like software. A new generation of Gnome devs in the distant future could go full circle ^

Gnome especially Mutter is a big reason why I waited for so long to make the full switch.

Fedora is a much better choice for a new user than Endeavor. (E is good, but it’s very sink or swim, it’s better to start with something else) So that’s good. Don’t know about the mod organizer, but I would be quite surprised if it didn’t work, though using a windows program to navigate a Linux folder structure is something to get used to.( I played Starfield recently and installed mods manually )

As for anticheat, yeah that’s true. (Not that I would ever consider willingly installing spyware like that on my computer, nor are they very effective outside of stealing user data that is)

As for Proton of course it works. Having a dedicated GPU will significantly increase compatibility, even if it’s nvidia. Though if you want to source your games outside of Steam you really shouldn’t bother with the Steam client, just use bottles.

Yeah

The only benefit for a normal desktop user, who never plans to write code (or deploy stuff on multiple PCs) is that immutability makes updates far safer and easier.

However this is the single largest weakness the Linux desktop has. Everyone can use a linux computer, maintenance though is always a problem. No one has succeeded at making a regular distribution that never needs command line intervention and a degree of knowhow to unbreak. (not counting Chrome OS) Maybe someday soon we’ll have an immutable distribution that’s truly just install and forget. (with good DE options like the new cosmic or even a carefully put together Hyprland rice)

I get it, but could your use case e any more niche?

Oh so that’s what that was. I just cranked the volume on my eeePC. (I use handbrake to make SD videos for that ancient computer)

If Debian is too DIY for you, then you could try LMDE with the BTRFS filesystem and Timeshift for maximum safety and far less DIY.

This is not even close to the worst thing they have ever done, but stuff like this is a waste of resources. People mostly want official vertical tabs and more than anything engine performance improvements. (and the ability to pretend to be Chrome in Youtube)

I tried many times, though not recently and I agree with it being worse than just redundant. Sure, it’s usable and maintainable, but it’s objectively a bad idea.

You can just run vanilla arch, or one of the installers like Endeavor OS and just use BTRFS snapshots to counter breakages instead of Manjaro’s delay thing managed by people I just cannot take very seriously.

This is a really great read, but I’m less optimistic than he is.

There is a shill on YT called Linuxcast. (I like his content, but he is defo a Suse shill) Personally i’d rather fix some arch fuckups, then to not have the AUR. (or if I don’t have the AUR, then just use Debian)